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...aboard-until he gave a stewardess a note stating his demands. "I thought he was trying to hustle me," said the stewardess, Florence Schaffner. "I stuffed the note in my purse, and he motioned that I should take it out and read it." He wanted, upon arrival at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the sum of $200,000 and four parachutes. Recalls Passenger Richard Simmons: "I saw one stewardess answer a call, and her face dropped. She looked bewildered and gulped. I guess she learned what was happening then...
...Died. Edgar N. Eisenhower, 82, corporation lawyer and elder brother (by 21 months) of the late President; of a stroke; in Tacoma, Wash. When Edgar publicly chided his brother for proposing an oversized budget in 1957, Ike shrugged: "Edgar has been criticizing me since I was five years old." The second of the seven Eisenhower brothers, "Big Ike," as Edgar was known, liked to recall how he and "Little Ike" would fight "for the sheer joy of slugging one another" during their boyhood days in Abilene, Kans. But when 14-year-old Dwight got blood poisoning after skinning his knee...
Thus assured of the wisdom of his action, Judge Boldt last week dealt with the "Seattle Seven"-the young protesters accused of conspiring to damage a federal courthouse in Seattle last winter. After declaring a mistrial in the Tacoma proceedings, Judge Boldt summarily convicted the seven of contempt, and ordered them to serve one or more six-month jail terms. Then he adamantly refused to grant bail to the defendants...
...observers have expected the mop-haired "Seattle Eight" to stage a political trial as messy as the one in Chicago. The defendants have, in fact, caused a few sporadic disruptions-clenched-fist salutes for the judge and brief scuffles outside the courtroom. But when the new trial opened in Tacoma last week, there were clear differences. For one, U.S. District Judge George Boldt, 66, seems more detached and judicious than Julius Hoffman. His authority has also been strengthened by last spring's Supreme Court decision (Illinois v. Allen), which sanctioned contempt citations, gagging or expulsion of obstreperous defendants...
...scales are high, workers at the $7,202-a-year G55 level have earned 20% less than their counterparts in private enterprise. "The money I make is so low that I can apply for welfare." says Marvel Paine, a G54 hospital clerk with the Veterans Administration in Tacoma. Many federal workers moonlight; many Washington, D.C., taxi drivers working nights and weekends are Government employees...