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When Nixon ran against Pat Brown for Governor of California in 1962, Tuck popped up everywhere like a bad sprite. Nixon would no sooner throw him off the campaign train than he would sneak back on again. At a rally in Los Angeles' Chinatown, Tuck gave a banner to some children, who waved it aloft when Nixon appeared. "Let's have a picture," the candidate suggested. At that point, some of the Chinese happened to read the inscription, WHAT ABOUT THE HUGHES LOAN?-a reference to the $205,000 that Howard Hughes had lent Nixon's brother...
Mitchell sometimes is able to sneak out for a short ride around Manhattan, friends say, but he rarely walks anywhere now for fear of being accosted by reporters. For the same reason, he rides to Washington in his dark blue Lincoln for consultation with his lawyers, William G. Hundley and Plato Cacheris, instead of taking an airplane or the Metroliner. Since they dare not venture out, he and Martha invite friends in for cocktails and dinner, which is prepared by a cook when Martha, herself a talented chef, prefers to stay out of the kitchen...
...members of the Heath regime detoured into Fleet Street last week. It developed that two giant Sunday papers had been involved in questionable Peeping Tom activities while competing for salacious muck. The News of the World (circ. 6,000,000) revealed that one of its photographers had taken sneak pictures of Lord Lambton romping in bed with Prostitute Norma Levy and another doxy. NOW's rival, the Sunday People (circ. 4,600,000) admitted paying for film and tapes of Norma's upper-crust bedroom festivities...
...calls for the 33 cars to line up three abreast in eleven rows, circle the track and then gradually quicken the pace for a nice orderly start. But once the winged, turbo-charged monsters come roaring down the final straightaway at 150 m.p.h., each trying to jump lanes or sneak ahead, the result is more like a motorized stampede...
...Bennett's article on Down's Syndrome she points out, in her initial listing of the characteristics of the condition, that low IQ is one of them. She then demonstrates, using the poignant example of Kathryn, that such a "child who manages to sneak by the preconceptions, although not of normal intelligence, is as sensitive, as creative and as loving, or more so, than his or her normal brothers and sisters." It should be pointed out that there is good evidence that IQ s of 100 (average) are attainable by afflicted children who have not been institutionalized. Kathryn's behavior...