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...foresight to seize a chair at the left end of the table. The constant irritations of domestic life are multiplied for the southpaw. Scissors do not work properly, and neither do can openers. Subway turnstiles are right-hand oriented, soldiers salute with the right hand and solemn oaths are sworn the same...
Another key post for which Nixon wanted a man he knew intimately was that of Attorney General. He settled on John Mitchell, the dour-looking lawyer whom Nixon once called "the heavyweight" because of his acumen and administrative talents. Mitchell had sworn vehemently to anyone who would listen that he would take no post in the Administration. Nixon surprised many who remembered his 1960 campaign by heeding most of his manager...
Once his Cabinet was sworn in by President Giuseppe Saragat at the Palazzo Quirinale last week, Rumor continued work on the policy statement that he will present to the Parliament. He will almost certainly reaffirm Italy's commitment to NATO, call for reform of university and school laws and press for increases in worker pensions. Rumor's skill in allotting posts across the coalition's entire range assures him of support from about 360 of the chamber's 630 deputies. All his agility as a compromiser may prove useless, however, unless he can quickly produce...
...world's monetary arrangements. In varying degrees, that view was echoed in France, West Germany, Italy and Switzerland. More and more, the experts talk of the urgent need to convene another Bretton Woods-style conference, perhaps in Washington, as soon as possible after the Nixon Administration is sworn...
...evidence against him. His Re publican opponent, Shelby Highsmith, accused him of taking a $1,500 bribe eight years ago to drop bad-check charges against Howard C. Edwards, a former minister of the Christian Church, after Edwards had made the bad check good. As proof, Highsmith offered sworn statements from Edwards and an alleged contact man. Next day the Herald arranged to fly Edwards and his colleague to Chicago for lie-detector tests. Though Edwards' test was inconclusive, the Herald was convinced that the other man's story was true...