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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Gene Baker had lain for months like a dead cat at the door of the U.S. Senate. Few inside seemed in any rush to kick him away. True, the sharp, ferret-eyed kid who had left his native Pickens, S.C., at 14 to become a Senate page had been charged with gross impropriety for using his post as a Senate aide to become Washington's No. 1 influence peddler. But he had survived two sideshow investigations by the Democrat-packed Rules Committee, which was not anxious to strike down the man who had been Lyndon Johnson...
Last week a federal grand jury shattered Baker's complacent life. It produced a 30-page indictment charging him with nine counts of tax evasion, theft and conspiracy. The charges were the result of 15 months' work by a team of Justice Department lawyers and Internal Revenue Service and FBI agents, who had been digging deep into Bobby Baker's murky affairs, helping to supply the jury with some 10,000 pages of testimony in closed-door sessions in Washington's U.S. courthouse. If convicted, Bobby Baker could receive up to 48 years in jail...
...ordinaires and Lyndon's favorite dishes are fit only for Him. That was too much for California-born Restaurateur Victor Bergeron, 63, better known as Trader Vic for his string of 13 Polynesian eateries around the U.S. He forked over $3,612 to buy a full page in San Francisco's Examiner & Chronicle to baste René in an open letter. A sampling: "By what stretch of the imagination do you think that French cooking is the only cuisine in the world? It happens that a great many people throughout the country enjoy beets with vinegar sauce...
...compress their coverage. He cut down on violence and crime stories, hired specialists so that a "reporter would not have to be a doctor one hour, a lawyer the next, and an engineer the following." And he never stopped making changes. Only three months ago he cut the front page from eight to five columns and put in more white space for easier reading. "This newspaper does not stand still," he said. "It's in a continual state of ferment...
...quite understandable that the Harvard deans and masters interviewed by your reporter in your front page story of December 20 should have expressed themselves as they did concerning Harvard and the Rhodes scholarship selections this year...