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Nixon now has five regular staff aides. They include former Marine Colonel Jack Brennan, his military aide as President; Private Secretary Nora Vandersommen, who was a White House secretary; Office Secretaries Loie Gant and Jo Anne Miller; and former Marine Sergeant Carl F. Howell, an assistant to Brennan. Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's longtime personal secretary, remains on Nixon's payroll but has worked mostly in Washington while awaiting retirement on a comfortable federal pension. The Nixons also still have Manolo and Fina Sanchez as personal servants. Manolo, his former White House valet, has taken on a strange...
...revolution assumed responsibility for public peace from the discredited Caetano police. His command of COPCON has made Saraiva de Carvalho the fastest rising star in Portugal. Still, he has his detractors. Spínola is reported to have once said that Saraiva de Carvalho "should never have got above sergeant." Many Portuguese regard him as a not-too-bright, womanizing playboy-hence his unflattering sobriquet "O tolo" (the brainless...
Three Cambridge policemen have filed complaints against the city, alleging that they were unfairly passed over for promotion when City Manager James L. Sullivan recently named 28 officers to the post of sergeant...
...G.l.s must also devote at least 18 hours of duty time each month to some kind of formal education. Observes Sergeant Dale McLaughlin at Camp Casey, headquarters of the 2nd Division: "A man here is almost forced to get educated. You're hounded until you take something." Courses include high school subjects leading to a diploma and college-level studies...
...Leonard Matlovich, the Air Force technical sergeant who has begun a legal challenge to the military's prohibition of homosexual servicemen (TIME, June 9), now has some company. Last week the Army started proceedings to give less-than-honorable discharges to two lesbian WACs. Pfc Barbara Randolph, 22, of Indiana, and Private Debbie Watson, 20, of Texas, voluntarily admitted their sexual preferences to an interrogator as the result of a whispering campaign about their activities at Fort Devens, Mass. Both women intend to fight the dismissals, said Private Watson...