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...points bulletin has been issued for the Harvard Band's seven-foot tall drum which was reported stolen from the band room yesterday. It is suspected that the burglary is a Yale prank, a Harvard University Police Department officer said yesterday...
...wording of the item on Angola was a typesetter's prank, and not a conscious editorial decision...
Five dollars plus expenses bought a prank phone call from Martha Mitchell to the victim of your choice. ("Did you know the CIA is investigating you?" she asked one startled Montana resident.) Ms. Editor Gloria Steinem turned taxi-dancer for one $65 song; off to the side, Washington Post Watergate Reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward sold phony spy disguises. In the kissing booth, Veteran Socialite Barbara Howar demonstrated her wares to Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee. The occasion: the second annual Counter Gridiron dinner, held to raise money for a journalists' legal-defense fund and the hackles...
Gillerman said the GSA maintained that the original Maguire material was exempt from the freedom of Information Act and did not have to be released. The lawyer will contest the agency's claim at 3 p.m. today in federal district court before Judge Prank J. Murray...
Carl Withers, president of the Shaker Heights Republican Club, is one of the remaining loyalists: "I consider Watergate in the category almost of a fraternity prank, where the victim got his hand caught in a barrel of chestnuts. The hiding of the break-in by underlings was not the type of crime that merits such severe punishment-considering the good deeds President Nixon has accomplished." People who agree with Withers-and even many who take a less charitable view-believe that Nixon has suffered enough. But many others are not prepared to forgive or forget. According to a California Poll...