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...knowing your guys are better than the other guys. These Rams give a passer confidence as well as time." As for the Rams, they seemed to feel that Joe's swaggering self-confidence was something that might rub off on them, like his aftershave lotion. Said Linebacker Isiah Robertson, who as one of the few bachelors in the club has become Namath's closest teammate: "He knows he's a winner...
...Washington, there were flurries of telephone calls among Central Intelligence Agency alumni as they watched CIA Director William Martin (Cliff Robertson) explain to his mistress that he had lied before a Senate committee about political assassinations abroad. Martin is a fictional mutation of former CIA Chief Richard Helms, and a plot line of Behind Closed Doors is that the top spook blackmailed President Richard Monckton (Jason Robards) to cover up the killings. Nothing of the kind ever occurred, but some CIA veterans were concerned about the possibilities of further damage to the agency's already battered image...
...Ehrlichman's roman à clef, The Company, and all the famous names have been changed to protect the guilty. Even so, it is not hard to identify such major characters as President Richard Monckton (Jason Robards), ex-President Esker Scott Anderson (Andy Griffith), CIA Chief William Martin (Cliff Robertson) or National Security Council Head Carl Tessler (Harold Gould). Lesser Watergate lights-from Hugh Sloan to Howard Hunt-should be recognizable to anyone who has seen All the President...
Defense Counsel Geoffrey Robertson defended Kirkup's poem as "a genuine expression of how one man came to love God . . . a devotional poem by a gifted poet," but the jury was not impressed. By a vote of 10 to 2, it convicted both Lemon and Gay News. The judge praised the jury for its "moral courage" and imposed fines of $1,700 on the paper and $850 on the editor...
...given a weak religious upbringing by his Jewish mother, ran a Texas Bible camp until he felt God tell him that a great revival was coming in the New York City area. Despite his Jewish emphasis, he gets backing from such Gentile Pentecostal stalwarts as Christian Broadcaster Pat Robertson and Evangelist David Wilkerson...