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...freshman year, Lewis teamed with fellow Washingtonian James Brown to fashion a 17-2 record and bring an exciting run-shoot style of basketball that the Harvard community had never before witnessed...
...interview with White House Chef Henry Haller appears in the current Washingtonian magazine with lines drawn through certain sentences (still clearly legible) that White House staffers found objectionable. It was not censorship they wanted, the aides explained. They just did not think that the U.S. public needed to know that President Nixon mixed himself a martini every night before dinner, that the Nixons love meat loaf and hate calf's liver, that Pat Nixon "at times appears to lack a good appetite" and that she was in the White House eleven months before she visited the chefs...
...City magazines (Washingtonian, Atlanta, Seattle, etc.) become a major force with exposé of investigative Reporter Harry Karafin in Philadelphia...
...trespass on Capitol Hill, Washington police arrested 261 of them almost gently. Another 124 were picked up in the dying shantytown, and their belongings were meticulously catalogued for later retrieval. Even the mules, finally arriving in their 13-wagon train from Mississippi, went to pasture donated by a Washingtonian. There was an abortive riot in the Washington ghetto. But the authorities-particularly Mayor Walter Washington-stuck to their restraint. Resurrection City's cost to Washington: $532,000, mostly for extra police...
...widely respected, resented, feared and loved for his curious combination of subtle skill and personal bluntness. As a political and legislative staffer, Kennedy had become a hard-bitten Washingtonian...