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...stand it is a secret. His automatic response to the merest hint of secrecy has made him one of Washington's most feared as well as respected investigative reporters. Because he cannot resist lid-lifting, Mollenhoff has at one time or another outraged, embarrassed or exasperated Dwight Eisenhower, Sherman Adams, Ezra Taft Benson, John Kennedy, Everett Dirksen, Jimmy Hoffa, George Meany, Lyndon Johnson, Bobby Baker and Robert McNamara, to name just...
...When the Sherman Adams scandal broke, Mollenhoff adopted the relatively simple strategy of bracing Mrs. Adams at home. After a bit of chitchat, he calmly asked, "Could I see the rug?," a reference to the Oriental rug that Adams was rumored to have improperly accepted. "No, I hadn't better show it to you," replied the innocent Mrs. Adams, thereby confirming its existence. Mollenhoff said a polite goodbye and soon splashed the whole story of the gifts across his papers...
Last April, after digesting 7,000 pages of testimony and cogitating for 35 straight hours, Judge Roller ruled that the National League had violated Wisconsin's "little Sherman" antitrust law by moving the Milwaukee Braves to Atlanta, thereby "substantially restraining" Wisconsin's trade and commerce. He fined the ten-team league $55,000 and court costs, ordered it either to 1) bring the Braves back, or 2) give Milwaukee a new team. Last week, in a 4-3 decision, Wisconsin's Supreme Court overruled Roller and ordered him to dismiss the case...
Circulating through Capitol corridors last week, home builders talked of their troubles in local terms. Calling on Senators Thruston Morton and John Sherman Cooper, a delegation of 40 Kentuckians reported that single-family building permits were off by 36% in Louisville so far this year. Pittsburgh Builder Roland Catarinella called the low-income housing market back home "100% dead," said he had canceled construction of a 100-apartment project. William Harvey of Bettendorf, Iowa, said he had lopped five men off his 30-man payroll, and even at that was just about covering overhead. "When it becomes more than...
...magazine, has been contacted by Alfred A. Knopf Inc. and Harper's magazine, is planning to return to college this fall. Schulberg is equally high on the talents of Leumas Sirrah, 18, a high-school student whose poems are generally lyrical abstractions about God and life, and Jimmy Sherman, 22, whose four-stanza verse TH' WORKIN' MACHINE is being set to music by television's Steve Allen...