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...HUAC that Hiss was a Communist. Not so, said Hiss, who also insisted that he had never known Chambers. But Chambers knew so many details about Hiss's life?including the fact that Hiss, an amateur ornithologist, had once spotted a rare prothonotary warbler on the banks of the Potomac???that his adversary was finally forced to reverse himself. Then Chambers made a more serious accusation: that Hiss had passed State Department secrets to him in the late 1930s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hiss: A New Book Finds Him Guilty as Charged | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...start as a Johnson campaign volunteer in 1964 and as the wife of a rich Washington builder, from whom she was divorced three years ago. Since then, she has lived largely by her wits (which are considerable), doing TV interviewing and being an exciting presence at parties along the Potomac???many of the best of which she herself gives in her small house in Georgetown for an eclectic, politically liberal guest list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Martha Mitchell's View From The Top | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

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