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Governor Ray is pondering Bobbie's plight. As his press secretary Dick Gelbert explains: "The Governor has no power to extend sentences; he can only commute or pardon or parole." But the publicity aroused by Bobbie's letter may eventually get him what he wants. MGM has even considered doing a movie or TV show about his life, a project Bobbie thought he would like...
...Department, so often derogated by the President and his aides, has been relatively untainted by Watergate. Kissinger is known to believe that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to conduct foreign policy from the White House in the present climate. But he is sensitive to Nixon's plight, and in defending the presidency, he indirectly defends...
...plight of the Roman Catholic Church with its exodus of priests and communicants points up a problem which is not unique to the Catholic Church, but one it shares with other churches in which there is often too much concern with dogma and ritual rather than with the higher aims and values of practically all religions...
...pressed to come up with the money. What's more, he apparently misunderstood hospital administrators when they told him that they would appreciate a deposit before admitting his son. They were not demanding any money in advance, they said later. But no matter. Dietrich told friends about his plight, and a women's service sorority promptly set up the Jody Dietrich Heart Surgery Fund...
Rose Mary Woods' tortured explanation last week did not help. It is easy to sympathize with the plight of an able secretary who so dearly wants to aid her chief. But whether her bungled performance with the recorder was innocently accidental, or willful?or worse yet, did not take place at all?is still a question as tangled as the whole mess of the President's tapes...