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...what Soviet contacts had told other members of Congress at cocktail parties. He insisted that the Soviets were building Viet Nam opposition in Congress and the press. He slapped his thigh with delight when he got a report from the FBI about a prominent Republican Senator who frequented a select Chicago bordello and had some kinky sexual preferences, all of which were reported in detail. The information came from a madam who was an FBI informer...
Skiers, skaters and snowmobile jockeys have inflated the audience for winter weather. A smaller, more select group of frosted sportsmen also follows snow bulletins with fascination: the men who hitch Huskies to light wood rigs and mush across wilderness trails in sled-dog races. From the White Mountains of New Hampshire through the Upper Midwest snow belt to Alaska, a cadre of dog sledders has been reviving the arcane sport for thrills and profit. TIME Correspondent Richard Woodbury visited Ely, Minn., to cover the Sixth All-American Sled-Dog Championships. His report...
Although the retired Eisemann now claims to have exercised no interest in Harvard Square politics and never held a position in the Chamber of Commerce, several Cambridge reformers insist that he was a force even Crane had to reckon with. He still exerts influence as treasurer for select CCA candidates on the Cambridge ballot...
...fresh-and personal-indignation: confirmation of recurring Washington suspicions that FBI files contain reports about the sex lives, drinking problems and other peccadilloes of many public figures, including some members of Congress. As a result, the Senate was expected to vote this week to set up an eleven-member select committee to investigate not only the CIA but the FBI and the entire U.S. intelligence community, which employs between 100,000 and 150,000 people and costs some $6 billion a year.* Democratic Senator Alan Cranston of California said that the probe would cover "anything and everything, not only...
...week. After hearing evidence that congressional oversight, particularly of the CIA, has been inadequate, the Democrats agreed, according to Adlai E. Stevenson III of Illinois, that "the danger of the police state is no longer unreal." They voted 45 to 7 to recommend that the Senate set up a select committee to investigate "the extent, if any, to which illegal, improper or unethical activities were engaged in by any agency" of the U.S. Government from the days of the cold war until the present...