Word: probed
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Boyish-looking Richard J. Davis, 27, headed the probe of the efforts of Donald H. Segretti and others to sabotage Democratic presidential campaigners. Davis has also helped with the investigation of ITT. He graduated with the highest average in his class at Columbia Law School, served as clerk to Federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein in New York and specialized in corruption investigations as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York for a year...
...voyage of 20 months across more than half a billion miles of the solar system. Still another unmanned spacecraft, Mariner 10, is speeding toward a flyby of Venus and later will provide the first closeup view of Mercury-man's first two-planet survey with a single space probe...
According to the Miami Herald, the probe of the Senator's finances began after Gainesville Builder Philip I. Emmer complained to the FBI that a Gurney emissary had demanded $5,000 for FHA approval of two apartment projects costing $6,000,000. The Herald reported that another builder, John Priestes of Miami, told a grand jury that he had been promised influence through Gurney's office if he paid Larry E. Williams, who was then an aide to the Senator, $500 a house for each FHA-subsidized housing contract he received. Priestes reportedly testified that he had turned...
Well aware that he heads merely a caretaker government, Sanya waited until last week before taking any kind of decisive action. To the delight of the populace, he froze the assets of the three exiled officers and began a probe of their extensive real estate holdings and myriad bank accounts. Most of the new Premier's activity, though, has been less dramatic-directing the planning of a new constitution for the country and the elections that he has promised to hold within nine months...
Died. Sir Alan Cobham, 79, pioneer of commercial aviation in the 1920s and '30s, who originated the probe-and-drogue mid-air refueling system still in use today; in Bournemouth, England. Determined to demonstrate the feasibility of long-distance flying, Cobham and his wife in 1927 successfully completed a 23,000-mile flight around Africa in a 1,400-h.p. "flying boat...