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...thought it made sense to have several different drives to probe the different sectors of the economy," he said. "If one drive is not doing well, it won't hurt other drives that are successful...
...investigations of the U.S. intelligence community are gradually moving ahead. Every week a presidential panel hears secret testimony about the Central Intelligence Agency's domestic activities. That probe was scheduled to conclude April 4, but the commission's chairman, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, said last week that he will ask for an extension of several weeks...
Dorfman is reluctant to probe behind the comfortable surface and reveal the character of her sitters. We are too aware of how much she cares for and depends on these people. Her vulnerability is too obvious and it prevents her from achieving any kind of emotional distance from her subjects. She pinpoints the problem of many of her photographs herself, in a comparison she draws between herself and Diane Arbus...
That seemed to mean that the Senate committee probably will conduct much if not all of its probe in secrecy, as has been done so far by President Gerald Ford's commission to investigate the CIA. Its chairman, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, said last week that his group has "been given a broad picture" of the situation by CIA Director William E. Colby and his predecessors, and would next "go into details with [the CIA] staff." Asked if the commission had found "extensive illegal spying," Rockefeller cautiously replied: "I would not say that what you have just said would...
...common throughout the industry. In Illinois, for example, the mysterious deaths of several nursing-home patients in Lake County triggered a legislative investigation that could expand to cover the entire state. In California, the office of the city attorney and the bureau of consumer affairs are planning a joint probe of Los Angeles nursing homes and hope to publish a consumer's guide to care facilities for the elderly. A federal investigation now under way in New Jersey led to the indictment of one nursing-home operator for fraud; a grand jury was expected to hand up similar indictments...