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...Atlanta, an exterminating firm picked the wrong customer to bug with a raise on his monthly bill (from $7.50 to $8). The victim was Ed Hicks, a staffer at the Office of Emergency Preparedness. After he promised that the matter would get close attention, the company decided that the raise was a mistake and withdrew...
...having the Secretary preside over private gatherings, which he does frequently in Washington, Key Biscayne and the Western White House at San Clemente. Nixon sometimes telephones Connally three or four times a day. Says one White House aide: "The President is simply in awe of him." Adds another staffer: "Connally is one of the few whom Nixon is willing to discuss a lot of things with?politics, foreign relations, domestic problems...
...impropriety in accepting a plane for his official use from Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., a leading gas pipeline company with interests in oil. He was the first Governor to veto a war-on-poverty project. He was an indifferent executive, bored by the daily routines of office. A former staffer remembers: "John would come alive when there was a big issue. Otherwise he was content to leave the ship of state to his staff." Connally made few friends among the state's minority groups. Once he refused to meet representatives of a procession of Texas-Mexicans who had walked...
Buoyed by favorable reader response, Gelb has now commissioned a staffer to devote full time to a single city block in Manhattan. The man is John Corry, a veteran journalist and author (The Manchester Affair), who had just returned to the Times after three years of writing for Harper...
Americans may, as they tell the polltakers, consider television their prime source of news. According to yet another survey, however, TV newscasts usually go in one rabbit ear and out the other. Telephoning TV viewers after a newscast, Andrew Stern, a former ABC News staffer now on the journalism faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, found that 51% of those who had listened could not recall even one of the show's 19 items. Among all those called, the average memory rate was one item. (The calls were made over a period ranging from immediately after...