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...American Activities Committee, finding the First preferable because it rejects the very right of the committee to ask its questions. Mrs. Trilling says that from reading Miss Hellman's book, it sounds as if she actually pled the First Amendment. In fact, what she did was offer to plead the First, Trilling says, and when the committee refused to accept it, pled the Fifth, while circulating press releases about her innovative attempt to plead the First. "When I used to say to people that she took the Fifth Amendment, they thought I was making it up," Mrs. Trilling says...
...just drifted away, aimless and alone, gorging on fast food in rented rooms and fantasizing a love affair with a teenage movie star. It was to command this dream girl's attention that he shot the President. Awaiting trial early this year, at which his lawyers will plead insanity, Hinckley, alone in a Maryland stockade cell, now has only himself to hurt; twice he has attempted suicide. Agca, after a boyhood of rural Turkish poverty, attended two universities and eventually joined a gang of young fascist thugs in Istanbul. In their thrall he became a practiced assassin two years...
Nurses at least can plead poverty: their average income is only $15,000. By contrast, the median income for doctors in private practice is $84,000. Notes Senator Charles Percy of Illinois, who chaired the hearings: "According to a General Accounting Office sample of delinquent doctors and dentists, most are well established in their practices and perfectly capable of paying these loans back on time. Seventy-three percent had excellent credit ratings in the private sector." One Harvard University Medical School graduate has a $19,000 car loan, $2,000 in department-store charges and $13,000 in other outstanding...
...from being dropped as Ike's running mate by making his maudlin Checkers speech. Nixon had one decided advantage over Allen. He persuaded the Republican Party to buy half an hour of prime television time, where he could make his pitch uninterrupted by hectoring reporters. For Allen to plead his case before the big audiences he wanted, he had to choose among the three networks' powerful courts of inquisition and had in return to face their male and female Torquemadas. Adroit in the arts of publicity, Allen chose NBC's Meet the Press-because the questioners...
...efforts aroused the ire of Haig, who felt that Allen was usurping a State Department role. In any case, it failed when word of the attempt leaked, all but forcing the proud Saudis to say no. Reagan was left with no way to win approval, ex cept to plead that rejection would destroy his ability to conduct foreign policy...