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...Special Counsel Charles Colson, Labor Secretary James Hodgson and Transportation Chief John Volpe. Ostentatiously absent from the round of meetings was White House Aide Dwight Chapin, who had been compromised by being tied into the Watergate scandal. "Chapin has got to go," declared a White House adviser. U.S. Treasurer Romana Banuelos would seem to be a likely target for dismissal, too, since her family-owned California food-processing firm was recently found guilty of unfair labor practices. Yet other factors may keep her in her present post. "Can you imagine firing a Mexican woman?" asked a Presidential assistant incredulously...
Political Conspiracy. There the matter would have ended, except that the proprietor of Ramona Foods happens to be Mrs. Romana Banuelos, a Mexican-American businesswoman whom Richard Nixon had just nominated to be the 34th Treasurer of the U.S. George K. Rosenberg, director of the Immigration Service's Los Angeles office and the man who called the raid, said he did not know Mrs. Banuelos' identity until after the raid was over. In any case, noted Rosenberg, he had sent a routine letter to Ramona Foods in August 1969, warning the company to stop employing illegal aliens...
...groups of notes around nuclear notes, occurring before, with or after them."). Instead, he spends the space discussing the fascinating food his soloist, Aloys Kontarsky, consumed on the days when the album was being recorded. On the groaning board: jugged deer with Spdtzle; marrow consomme; steak Tartare; saltimbocca romana ("He sent the rice back"); Movenpick ice-cream tart; Haldengut Pilsen beer; Cognac; Coca-Cola; Johannisberg wine, and one Bloody Mary. During one recording session, confides Stockhausen, "every movement that Kontarsky made caused his piano stool to creak on the wooden floor," a difficulty that caused a one-and-a-half...
...plow through public-record tax files. Recipients of CIA-suspect largesse made an encyclopedic grab bag of organizations ranging from the now defunct Institute of International Labor Research Inc. (headed by Old Socialist Norman Thomas) to the Billy Graham Spanish-American crusade, from the North American Secretariat of Pax Romana and the John Hay Whitney Trust for Charitable Purposes to the International Food and Drink Workers Federation and the Friends of India Committee...
...Roman Empire, vaster eight times over than the sets of Cleopatra, he suddenly becomes Cordell Bronston. "This moving picture," he says, "which covers less than two decades of history 18 centuries old, will be particularly significant and meaningful today when our greatest leaders seek to revive the Pax Romana in a disorderly world." "Bronston's simplicity and naivete are amazing," says Actor James Mason, "and he comes through it all with great success. He's like a little boy who never doubts his daydreams will come true." He has the Midas touch. For John Paul Jones, he bought...