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Understandably, none of the newsmen Wallace interviewed admitted that cushy treatment could affect his judgment. Indeed, Wallace notes that some prominent journalists who have gone junketing in the past-including CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite-"scoff at the notion that their reporting can be bought." But even if all reporters were invulnerable to blandishment, the venerable practice of junketing would still be a sticky problem. Wallace asks whether the suspicion that journalists are being influenced by favors is not enough to damage press credibility-especially at a time when the press is investigating unethical behavior in other places, including the White...
...more significant queries for Nixon raised by the Dean testimony are these: Did he discuss Executive clemency with Ehrlichman and Colson, as Dean claims? Did he congratulate Dean on helping to limit the Watergate indictments? Did he scoff at the $1,000,000 in payoff money, as the White House claims? Is there a tape, as Dean suspected, of the meeting in which Nixon claimed to have been joking about the $1,000,000 in silence money...
...bane of college athletics." He is virtually alone, however, in wanting to abolish the flesh trade altogether on the grounds that "our universities should stand on their own merits." Rival coaches, victimized by Wooden basketball teams that have won 75 consecutive games and seven straight national championships, understandably scoff at the proposal. Wooden, they say, can afford to take such an upright stand because U.C.L.A. has long attracted the best high school players on prestige alone. Last week, in fact, Richard Washington of Portland, Ore., considered by many the nation's No. 1 schoolboy prospect, announced that...
Considered with his efforts to get the Faculty to revamp the Commission on Inquiry to hear student grievances, Bok's shareholder program hints that he is genuinely interested in student opinion. That is more than can be said for his predecessor or for the Faculty majority, which likes to scoff at and downplay any student participation beyond the adolescent level...
...alone in investigating psychic phenomena. Indeed, the persistence and growth of that search in an age of science is testimony to the vitality of the concept. But until psychic researchers produce something more than nebulous evidence, skeptics will continue to scoff...