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...role in the Donovan probe. Furino flunked a lie-detector test on April 27, when he claimed that he had never collected any payoffs from Donovan. He later made two appearances before the grand jury investigating Donovan. On June 2 Silverman subpoenaed John DiGilio, Furino's superior in the Genovese family, to appear before the grand jury as well. The next day Furino vanished. Silverman's report calls for an investigation into whether Furino's slaying was an obstruction of justice...
...father off on the job? They cannot, as Virginia Woolf observed, "run about the streets." The options are limited, and so far imperfect. These days, what Woolf called "that deepseated [male role] desire, not so much that she shall be inferior as that he shall be superior" may have moderated into an awareness that a different equation is wanted. Finding and holding the balance, however, requires some acrobatic skill. It also demands flexibility and a good deal of resilience...
Suffolk County Superior Court Justice Walter I Steele originally sentenced Hussain. Lefkowitz and Sherry to three to five years in Walpole State Prison, with all but six months of the sentence suspended. He stayed the sentences until an appeal was heard in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court...
Watergate's clearest lesson may be, as you say, that a President is not above the law [June 14]. But the cardinal teaching is that the presidency demands superior statesmen who will infuse the institution with values and character. Nixon's crime is not so much that he broke any specific law, but that he fostered a climate in which dirty tricks were encouraged...
...competition with stamina intact and muscle pulls at a minimum. The professionals who make up these national teams ordinarily tend toward cautious play; after all, too much money is involved to take chances. Income is more important than imagination. But upsetting results soon came in: Cameroon held the vastly superior Peru and Poland to scoreless draws the week before last. Tiny Kuwait tied a heavily favored Czechoslovakia, 1-1. And Algeria humiliated mighty West Germany, 2-1. "When I heard about Algeria," said the great Pelé, now retired and covering the games for a Mexican television network, "I thought...