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...failed by straining credulity in portraying the slender, subservient Dean, a born follower, as the "mastermind" in the Watergate coverup, with former Attorney General John Mitchell as "his patron." It contended, in effect, that this cunning pair participated in planning the political espionage at Democratic National Headquarters and then, to conceal that fact, they hindered the investigation by the FBI, compromised the CIA, ordered evidence shredded, and arranged for payoffs and offers of Executive clemency to the arrested burglars to ensure their silence. Creating a constitutional crisis almost alone, the Buzhardt statement in effect charged, Dean and Mitchell kept...
Bonnie Wheeler, a slender, long-haired blonde of 28, does not like flying, so she always takes an aisle seat and avoids looking out the window. "I'm a Chaucerian, and I don't quite believe that planes are licit," she says. She recalls that Geoffrey Chaucer, in The House of Fame, described his own feeling of panic when a great golden eagle carried him off into the skies. "The eagle flies Geoffrey around on his back, and tries to show him all the marvelous things there are in the world. All Geoffrey says to each new sight...
Last week the Government reported that industrial output in May rose a slender 0.5%, the smallest increase in ten months. In a Commerce Department survey, U.S. manufacturers said that they anticipated sales gains of only about 0.4% in the second quarter, compared with boosts of 4.1% in the year's first three months. Consumer buying is slackening except for some items. After rising exuberantly for four straight months, retail sales slumped by a full $1 billion in April, to $41 billion. One reason: growth in personal income slowed in May for the third month in a row, climbing...
...late supper: buxom Emmy Destinn, one of the greatest operatic dramatic sopranos of the time (1907), and the slender young Polish pianist and boulevardier Arthur Rubinstein. Rubinstein gallantly began to discuss music...
...first break came in February, when Santa Cruz police arrested Herbert Mullin, 25, a slender, former mental patient, who is accused of killing ten of the Santa Cruz victims. Last week police in California and Colorado caught up with two other men, one believed to be the Nob Hill rapist and the other the butcher of Santa Cruz's coeds...