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...million for the second cruiser, but what Rickover wanted most of all was the fifth carrier. Although he had complained privately to Carter, he voiced no public protest. But the admiral had only begun to fight; he quickly called upon his ally of a quarter-century, Washington Democrat Scoop Jackson, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Two weeks ago, at the committee's urging, the Senate added $81.6 million to the Navy's budget for research on the carrier -enough to keep the project afloat...
...conversation between Nixon and Aide Charles Colson in which the ex-President purportedly mentioned "goddamn hush money," possibly for the Watergate burglars. But the transcript printed by the Post was an early version that bore a warning of "reduced audibility" on its cover. Later, after publishing its scoop, the Post obtained transcripts of the Jan. 8 tape that had been prepared by experts on the special prosecutor's staff; they had deleted the hush money reference, deeming that section of the tape to be impossibly indistinct-a problem common to most of the tapes. Colson said he was "absolutely...
...reaction to Carter's initiative was predictably swift and angry. Governors and Congressmen from the affected areas echoed Senator Scoop Jackson's charge that the move was an absurd mistake. Declared Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd: "It is a waste of money to stop projects that have already started and gone through the long process of justification...
...Spaak should succeed, journalists would no longer vie for le scoop but for l'exclusivité. Le disc-jockey, to be known as l'animateur, would play le palmarès instead of le hit parade. These changes should make le show business as stodgy as it sounds when called l'industrie du spectacle. Clearly, the Belglais controversy will require many sessions of le brainstorming - or rather le remueméninges, which means, hélas, stirring up the membranes of the brain...
...Tony Price cashed in on a three-point play and Harvard forward Bob Hooft picked up his third foul with only ten minutes of play gone. Penn guard Bobby Willis hit on a straightaway 25-footer but Irion, who hauled down 11 points in the half, floated in a scoop shot going down the lane to lop the Quaker lead to eight...