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...roommate suggested that we make a run for it, but the guy watching us started to pull a gun out of his coat pocket," Hannemann said yesterday...
...rapport all his life. He was born in Omaha and christened Leslie King. Two years later his parents were divorced, and his mother took him back to her home town, Grand Rapids, Mich. There she married Paint Manufacturer Gerald Rudolph Ford, who adopted her son and renamed him. For pocket money in high school, the young Ford waited on tables in a Greek restaurant. A strapping 6 ft. 197 Ibs. when he entered college, he played center on the University of Michigan's undefeated national-championship football teams of 1932 and 1933. Along the way he worked...
...wound up as chairman of the Rexall drug chain, which he turned into the foundation of Dart Industries. That did not prevent him from selling off the Rexall stores piecemeal, until today there are only a dozen left. In 1947, Justin Dart advanced $7,000 out of his own pocket to a doctor who was working on a preparation to suppress high blood pressure; the drug turned into a steady though small seller and started Dart Industries' Riker Laboratories ethical-drug operation. But in 1970, he sold Riker Laboratories to the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. for 3M stock worth...
Congressional v. presidential authority is also involved in a suit over a Nixon pocket veto of a medical education bill during a five-day recess in 1970. Senator Edward Kennedy, a co-sponsor of the bill, went to court contending that the pocket veto power was meant for use only when Congress was in adjournment. He recently won in the trial court, and the appeals are now under way. Further in the future, the court may also have to consider whether the President's national security power legally justified the office burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist...
...interlocking motives of the Widmerpools and the two Americans suggest that Powell is heading toward some conclusion about sex, death and power. By the end of Kings it has not emerged clearly. Will his finale be an elegiac, dying fall? A vest-pocket apocalypse, with history hounding his characters as relentlessly as mortality? Hard to say. But he leaves his characters frozen in poses and gestures that have enough teasing significance to keep readers ruminating until the final volume comes...