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...admitted lying to various grand juries, prosecutors and at the original Watergate trial, was free after serving seven months of his ten-month to four-year term. He was reunited with his family in Bethesda, Md., where his wife Gail, in echo of a folk ballad, tied a yellow ribbon to a front-yard tree...
...week's end, after meeting with Secretary of State Kissinger, President Ford announced the appointment of a blue-ribbon panel "to determine whether the CIA has exceeded its statutory authority." Among the members: Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, former California Governor Ronald Reagan, former U.S. Solicitor General Erwin N. Griswold, retired Army General Lyman L. Lemnitzer and John T. Connor, onetime Secretary of Commerce...
Reports from such blue-ribbon committees are often duly noted by U.S. Administrations, then quickly forgotten. (Such was the fate of a 1969 Rockefeller Report on Latin America that criticized U.S. interference in the affairs of Latin American nations.) This time there is good reason to believe that Washington is paying attention; William D. Rogers, a Kennedy Democrat who helped draw up the study, is now Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs and will be a leading member of the U.S. delegation to Quito. Rogers has said that he would like to see a normalization of relations with...
Moses's name appeared constantly in the press, but the news media were generally content to echo his press releases and confine themselves to orgies of adulation every time Moses cut the ribbon for a bridge or a playground. Robert A. Caro's The Power Broker is only the second book-length study of Robert Moses to be published--but it almost singlehandedly makes up for this lack of biographical information about a man whom Lewis Mumford called the greatest influence on American cities in this century...
...Harvard, Cox was probably best known for his role as "University troubleshooter" near the end of the Pusey Administration. In the spring of 1968, Cox chaired a blue-ribbon fact-finding commission that studied the Columbia University student disorders of that year. In the fall of 1969, just after the University Hall bust, the Corporation granted him a broad mandate to handle disorders at Harvard...