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Died. Wendell Smith, 58, sportswriter and broadcaster who helped promote baseball's racial integration; of cancer; in Chicago. Early in 1945, Smith took Jackie Robinson and two other black players to open tryouts with the Boston Red Sox. When the Red Sox demurred, Smith stopped off in Brooklyn to...
SEC Commissioner Philip Loomis called it "one of the largest securities frauds ever perpetrated." The scene of the dealings sweeps from New York to Luxembourg, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico and Costa Rica, and the characters in the story are a movie director's dream. Besides Vesco, who denies all...
What is surprising is that voters who are loudly and sometimes angrily dissatisfied with Nixon's economic management are at the same time often anti-McGovern. "The whole economic situation is bad. " says Wendell Rushton, a mechanic in Miami. Still, Rushton will vote for Nixon because "McGovern is wishy...
Philadelphia. Just ten, he manifested an early maverick streak by differing with his father, a Missouri delegate who supported Wendell Willkie. Young Tom backed Thomas Dewey because, he says, "he had better buttons." As with the Kennedy clan, current events were the staple fare at the Eagleton dinner table, and...
Baseball fans were mystified. It was rather like an umpire with one thumb hooked in the air and the other hand spread out, saying, "You probably should be out, but you're safe, I think, kind of." For the third time in 50 years, the Supreme Court was considering...