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...faces some tough questioning of its own. The Senate Labor Committee is investigating the bureau's handling of Donovan's confirmation probe 18 months ago. The personal files of FBI Director William Webster, forwarded to the committee last month, reveal that the name of Schiavone appeared several times in the bureau's reports on the 1975 disappearance of former Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa. That detail would surely have intrigued both the Senate committee that approved Donovan's nomination in February 1981, and the special prosecutor this year. But neither learned about it until last month...
...words in which all the vowels appear in the proper sequence; duoliteral is one of the even fewer in which they all appear backward. Kinnikinnik, he reports, is not only an Indian smoking mixture of bark and leaves but the longest palindrome among the 450,000 entries in Webster's Third New International Dictionary. Cuspidor is the word that James Joyce declared to be the most beautiful in the entire language...
...conceal what might have been damaging information about Donovan. TIME has learned that the original discussions between Reagan's transition team and the FBI about the Donovan appointment were conducted on higher levels than had previously been admitted. In early December of 1980 FBI Director William Webster conferred with Edwin Meese, Reagan's transition chief, about Donovan...
When it comes to Sunday hand-to-hand combat, Secretary of State Al Haig does better. He was Brinkley's guest the following week. Haig has learned to evade by being, if Noah Webster will allow the word, circumloquacious. "I'm sometimes very good," he acknowledged, at ducking questions. Four times in 15 minutes he answered, "It's too early to say"-a damp response in show-biz terms, but then it often is too early to say. "Aren't you really pleased," asked George F. Will, the gung-ho conservative, at the defeat...
However, the FBI was responsible for steering members of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee away from the Masselli recordings during the confirmation hearings. "The judgment was made that we should not volunteer information," said Webster. At one point during the hearings, Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah asked about a Manhattan grand jury that was investigating Masselli. Francis Mullen, who was then executive assistant director of the FBI, indicated that the probe involved a different case...