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...Widening Whirlpool. Next, it became clear through testimony from Lieut. General Vernon Walters, deputy director of the CIA, that White House advisers had tried to persuade the CIA to take the rap for Watergate or at least provide an excuse that would keep the FBI from thoroughly investigating one of its aspects. The circles of involvement spread from agency to agency, official to official. The Securities and Exchange Commission was afflicted last week when G. Bradford Cook, 36, its chair man for just 2½ months, resigned be cause of the "web of circumstance" that involved him in the Vesco...
Even National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, who had been completely removed from the Watergate whirlpool, seemed drawn into it. The White House confirmed that President Nixon had authorized, and Kissinger had accepted, the wiretapping of 13 Administration officials (several of them on Kissinger's staff) and four newsmen in an effort to determine who was leaking information about the SALT talks and the 1969 bombing of Cambodia...
Tortured Rationale. A common theme in the minority report is the admonition to critics of the President to slow down a bit. The Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch describes the nation "as caught in a whirlpool of rumors, innuendoes and unsubstantiated charges that threatens to pull it inexorably to the presently unjustified conclusion that Richard M. Nixon is a politically corrupt liar." Arguing that "in damaging the President, we damage the nation," the Omaha World-Herald said: "It will not wash if some element of the press is obliged at a future time to say 'Oops, our source was wrong...
After the races at Mammoth, Steels and Carter reported that 27 people plus a dog were thrown into a jacuzzi, an outdoor steaming hot whirlpool bath, and four and a half cases of beer had gone down various hatches, and, Carter jeered, "Some of the girls got pissed as hell when nobody gave them time to take off their Bogner stretchsuits...
...wrote the play, Eugene O'Neill said, with pity, understanding and forgiveness for "all the four haunted Tyrones," the name he used for his own family. In most productions of the play, James Tyrone, the father, a former matinee idol, dominates like some whirlpool of possessive energy and emotion that swallows everyone around him. Laurence Olivier captures the power, but he also shows the old man's vulnerability, his tenderness and, most of all, his pain and guilt as he watches his wife Mary retreat once again into the fogs of drug addiction...