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...asked them to submit lists of individual donors to cover their gifts. Such disguises are not unusual; a prime backer of Hubert Humphrey, New York Financier John Loeb, was fined earlier this year for funneling a large donation through several employees. Ashland received a letter from Committee Counsel Kenneth Parkinson simply stating that Atkins and his wife would be named as the source of the $100,000 given by Ashland. He assumed that the committee got his wife's name from "President Nixon's Christmas card list," Atkins testified...
Unknown in nature, such man-made compounds are becoming increasingly important. They have already been used to manufacture a group of catalysts-substances that stimulate or retard chemical reactions in which they themselves remain unaltered-used in the production of new supertough plastics, the drug L-dopa (for treating Parkinson's disease), low-lead fuels and other materials of industrial importance. The prize is especially gratifying to Wilkinson, who did most of his research while he was a junior faculty member at Harvard from 1950 to 1954. Because his senior colleagues were apparently unimpressed by his results, his contract...
...died between the ages of 57 and 91, had more in common than their professions. Interviews with relatives and friends, plus reviews of boxing journals and other publications, revealed that all were bothered by physical and mental symptoms after they left the ring. Most developed speech difficulties and a Parkinson's-like syndrome with drooling and tremors. Some also became uncoordinated in their movements and unsteady on their feet...
...Mitford figures, cost around 300 each. Only 5% is budgeted for that vaunted "rehabilitation." Most of the taxpayer's dollar, the author computes, goes to "security"−i.e., guards and guns. A lot of money also goes into penal bureaucracies, which have supported no law more faithfully than Parkinson...
...Their names: William O. Bittman, Charles Colson, John Dean. John Ehrlichman, Herbert Kalmbach, Robert Mardian, John Mitchell, Paul O'Brien. Kenneth Wells Parkinson, Gordon Strachan. Dean left out one law-breaking lawyer...