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...going beyond normal procedure, he let the convicted men know that the severity of sentences would depend heavily on the degree to which they cooperated with probation officers and investigators still probing the Watergate crimes. One potential truth-baring forum looming ahead at the time was that of Sam Ervin's Senate Select Committee. Sirica welcomed the hearings despite the fact that they could complicate some criminal prosecutions. "Not only as a judge but as one of millions of Americans who are looking for certain answers," Sirica said, he hoped the Ervin committee could "get to the bottom of what...
...White House also decided last week that it would not deliver material that had been subpoenaed by Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee. The material includes 486 tapes and hundreds of documents that possibly bear on a variety of scandals. Just how the White House planned to deal with the subpoenas remained to be worked out, but Operation Candor obviously was hurt again. Late in the week, the White House did recover some ground by announcing that it would be releasing documents-although no summaries of tapes-dealing with the milk fund and the ITT case, the relatively favorable...
...mobster. Cain was a Chicago detective in the 1950s, and later became chief investigator in the Cook County sheriffs office. In the mid-1960s he was dismissed from the sheriffs office for concocting a phony drug raid, and he became the chief operative of Chicago Mafia Overlord Momo Salvatore (Sam) Giancana. In 1966 Giancana left Chicago for Mexico to avoid federal heat and counseled the Chicago syndicate from his exile; Cain was a trusted aide...
...Filipino), and a supercar with the name of a horse, Black Beauty. The supernatural thrived in a Poe-like atmosphere on Inner Sanctum and Lights Out -programs that featured echo chambers, creaking doors and the indelible clack of skeletons rising from granite tombs. Dashiell Hammett's detectives, Sam Spade, The Thin Man and The Fat Man, gave audiences a private eye and earful; other ops-Philip Marlowe, Philo Vance and Martin Kane-were even more hardboiled. Ben Hecht himself could not glamorize the press as well as oldtime radio. Britt Reid (the true identity of the Green Hornet...
...years, during which its volume increased nearly 150%. Last July, he returned to his native North Carolina because "there are things in life which are more important than money"; he plans to run in the upcoming Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat to be vacated by Sam Ervin...