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Michael S. Rice, '63, secretary for the Massachussets Rhodes selection committee, says he feels the women who are chosen "will in effect select themselves--the selection committees are wholly dependent on who chooses to apply." Rice says he will look for women with "a good head, an active life in some important respect, a social role of some importance in some area, some evidence of achievement in other areas besides academics," and for women who are "honorable, compassionate, and principled...
...fund borrower; Jack Sheetz, a businessman indicted but not prosecuted for misuse of union pension funds; and some other figures linked to organized crime. After finishing the day with a respectable 92 on the 72 par course, Nixon retired to a recreation room for a private chat with a select group of fellow players and autographed scraps of paper for guests' children...
...tangled is Washington's subterranean world of spying, intelligence gathering and undercover investigation that any abuse found in one agency seems destined to expose related illegalities in others. After pursuing the CIA for more than nine months, Democratic Senator Frank Church's Select Committee on Intelligence Activities last week shifted to the Internal Revenue Service and its harassment of citizens for political purposes. En route, the committee took potshots at the FBI as well...
...manhood. He delighted in the story of how he called the big steelmen "s.o.b.s," and in fact it was he who leaked the story. In the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, an evacuation plan was devised for key people in Washington. It meant that if the crisis grew, the select group would be taken by helicopter to the special command post under a Virginia mountain. Kennedy pondered a short while, then confided to some of his closest aides that if a nuclear attack came, he was not about to leave the White House or his family. He might...
After the Post story ran, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence pressed to obtain Hunt's testimony to get to the bottom of the accusations. The CIA pledged its cooperation. Anderson himself expressed shock. He recalled that he had received threats from the Mafia, but "I just didn't believe anyone [in the Nixon Administration] would seriously suggest murder...