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Nixon also had advice for the President in one of his other areas of expertise. Two Saturdays ago, he phoned Reagan, urging him to root for the New York Giants against the Washington Redskins. But Nixon, no longer a fan of things Washingtonian, was unable to shake Reagan's loyalty to the home team, which got clobbered by the Giants...
Some years back, in a poll published in the Washingtonian, Evans and Novak were voted the "least respected" in the Washington journalistic establishment by their press corps colleagues. They specialize in puffing up tendentious controversies, usually based on tips and leaks from right-wing sources, but colleagues acknowledge that they are often first on a story, and their reporting is well grounded. It was their mixture of fact and opinion (what the law calls "hybrid statements") that disturbed some of the judges...
Stein has long rated high with his colleagues, who elected him president of the District of Columbia Bar in 1982 (among his qualifications for the honor, Stein whimsically listed his having won a grade-school marble championship). A lifelong Washingtonian, he is one of the capital's wealthiest private attorneys (although he normally takes a bus to the office). Stein, who is so apolitical that he has never registered to vote, successfully defended Attorney Kenneth Parkinson in the Watergate conspiracy trial. But he failed to persuade a different jury that Dwight Chapin, Richard Nixon's appointments secretary...
...including WTVS Detroit) who contribute at least $25 a year, would compete for advertising with commercial magazines while enjoying Public Broadcasting's nonprofit advantages. Among those breaks: generous tax exemptions, lower postal rates, tax-deductible subscription fees and free promotion on PBS stations.* Publisher Philip Merrill, whose Washingtonian (circ. 103,300) was directly threatened by Dial, spearheaded a campaign to end this federal largesse...
...middle-class whites are settling in the District, though not yet in great numbers. Middle-class blacks, in turn, are moving out to the suburbs, and as Peter McGrath and Howard Means pointed out in the October Washingtonian magazine. Prince George's County, Md., may soon provide "the purest test in the area of the ability of blacks and whites to live together." Such facets of Washington life are not the concern of Washington haters, who concentrate their fury on candlelit Georgetown and rich but modest Cleveland Park. Yet their grievances about Washington run far deeper than this...