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...first full week of operation the FBI hot line received reports from more than 140 citizens, many of them anonymous. "We're getting them from all walks of life," said Special Agent Dick Ross, "professional people, people who are in local government and people who think they just might have heard something that will help us." Partly because the tips have proved promising, a special federal grand jury will convene in March to consider more indictments. The grand jury will look into wrongdoing not only in Hillsborough County but all along Florida's west coast from Fort Myers...
...were Graham herself and Margaret Truman Daniel. Rosalynn Carter dined with former Democratic Party Boss Robert Strauss and Richard Simmons, Washington Post Co. president. Some 2,400 other place cards included notables from television (Tom Brokaw, Walter Cronkite), business (Laurance Rockefeller, Lee Iacocca) and show business (Steven Spielberg, Diana Ross). Two hours of after-dinner ceremonies went from Graham's opening remarks to a closing "My Turn" salute by Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, who observed that TIME and Newsweek have been "inevitably linked as a fated pair, like Macy's and Gimbels, Coke and Pepsi...
...guilty on four smuggling-related charges. After the verdict federal prosecutors asked that Wilson be declared a "dangerous special offender," claiming that he had "offered about $1 million" to a fellow prisoner to kill nine people, including Government attorneys and witnesses who testified against him. If U.S. District Judge Ross Sterling agrees, that could add eight years to Wilson's possible sentence of 17 years in prison...
...classic whodunit. The setting is England, the time the 1890s. Sir Arthur Detling is a crusty old Tory, holder of "one of the most ancient baronetcies in the land." Among the burdens Sir Arthur must bear is his older daughter Dolly's determination to marry Bernard Ross, a Liberal M.P. with a mysterious past: although born in England, he spent part of his childhood in the U.S. Sir Arthur disapproves of his new son-in-law and of Parliament, which he calls "the talking shop." He is further nettled by his son's marriage to the daughter...
...question of Irish Home Rule charges the atmosphere. Prime Minister William Gladstone tries vainly to keep Parliament in session until it wears down and disposes of the Irish problem. Meanwhile, militant Irish congregate in London to plot bombings and other extralegal redresses. A delegation of three calls on Ross; people in his circle begin wondering where the young M.P.'s loyalties lie. Symons also conducts a guided tour of London's fin de siècle bohemia, where the names conjured with include Whistler, Turner and Beardsley. Oscar Wilde drops in on a party and charms everyone...