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...throw the victory away by committing the worst gaffe of his crossexamination. With the jury out of the room, he persuaded Judge Carter to bar the defense from discussing the threats against the Hearsts that have occurred since the trial began, and the bombing on Feb. 12 at San Simeon, the former estate of Patriarch William Randolph Hearst. (At week's end, the FBI and local police arrested six people with alleged connections to the New World Liberation Front, the terrorist group that has claimed responsibility for the San Simeon bombing.) Bailey wanted the jury to hear about these...
...after Carter's ruling, there was a brief stir in the courtroom when Randolph Hearst received a message and suddenly left. A bomb had badly damaged a luxurious guest house at San Simeon, where Publishing Tycoon William Randolph Hearst, the family patriarch, had built his private Xanadu. The castle, 250 miles south of San Francisco, is now owned by the state. A little-known terrorist group, the New World Liberation Front, announced that it had set off the violent blast. Unless the Hearsts contributed $250,000 within 48 hours to the defense of the Harrises, warned the unit...
...magazine fell into decline, publishing articles almost exclusively from experts in various fields of public policy. That original group of editors had ties to and financial support from the Institute of Politics at Harvard; when the Review was rejuvenated in 1972-73, it was under the editorship of Simeon Kriesberg '73, chairman of the Institute's Student Advisory Council...
...memoir entitled The Times We Had. Hearst, who was 58 when he discovered Marion as a chorus girl of 16, was "the kindest, most innocent, naive person you'd ever want to meet." Despite the millions he spent on his 300,000-acre estate at San Simeon in California, he provided his guests with paper napkins (he considered them more sanitary than linen). Few seemed to mind, including Calvin Coolidge, who once dropped by for a visit after retiring from politics. Davies impishly served the teetotaling former President tokay wine, while assuring him that it was nonalcoholic. "He started...
...them a tour of his seven-story castle at Osaka, "is full of gold, this one of silver; this other compartment is full of bales of silk and damask, that one with robes, while these rooms contain costly swords and weapons." It sounds like an Oriental Hearst at San Simeon, but the vast ostentation of the Momoyama warlords had a political aim: to dazzle visitors and cow supplicants. In private they practiced a cult of austerity the essence of which lay in the tea ceremony: the rough bowl, the unpainted wooden panel, the natural stone which, in manifesting sabi (simplicity...