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...during a courtroom lull in the jury selection process, John Ehrlichman, baggy-eyed and subdued, bent purposefully over a yellow legal pad. The normally dour H.R. Haldeman, his crew cut turned sleekly long, glanced tentatively at his onetime friend, but got no encouragement. Before stepping out to smoke his pipe, a pale, drawn, considerably older-looking John Mitchell, 61, had sat aloof. Once the nation's chief law enforcer as Attorney General, he now faced criminal charges for the second time...
Recently, Carnegie officials had to face an agonizing acoustical problem: the hall needed a new pipe organ. The old instrument, installed in 1929 but never totally satisfactory, had been removed in the mid-'60s. But to install a new console and set of pipes would have meant tearing out the stage walls and changing their shape. To Carnegie's executive director, Julius Bloom, that would have been as risky as prying apart a Stradivarius violin. What...
...carpenters and pipe insulators moved into the final stages of construction on Canaday Hall this week, its occupants seem satisfied with their accommodations...
...that there was no danger at the Tyler plant, for an appalling reason: "That place is so dusty none of the men work there long enough to get sick." Covering some of the same ground, Scott reports that Dr. R.T.R. DeTreville, president of the Industrial Health Foundation, visited a pipe-manufacturing plant near Pittsburgh, where two workers had been hospitalized after being exposed to epoxy resins. Asked by a British doctor working with him why the plant was not closed until the extent of the danger was assessed, DeTreville replied, "You can't do that...
Extra Space. A short (5 ft. 7½ in.), pipe-smoking Michigander of Dutch extraction, terHorst was taken off the city hall beat at his home-town Grand Rapids Press to cover Ford's first congressional campaign in 1948. The paper had endorsed Ford against the incumbent, and terHorst's assignment, as he tells it, was "being sure that the Ford story was well covered." Ford won by a 2-to-l margin, and the President now amiably refers to terHorst as a man who "connived to get me a little extra space in the Grand Rapids Press...