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...handed over the FBI'S files on its Watergate probe. As a result, his name has turned up more than any other in the Judiciary Committee's hearings on Gray, and he is the man whom the Senators most want to question. But the President, invoking the widest possible interpretation of Executive privilege, has said that Dean, or for that matter any White House staff member, past or present, will not testify. Interestingly, Nixon's statement on Executive privilege was written by Dean himself...
Died. Ludwig Stossel, 89, Austrian actor who came to the U.S. as a middle-aged refugee, stayed to play kindly old Germans in more than 50 movies (Lou Gehrig's father in Pride of the Yankees, Albert Einstein in The Beginning or the End), but got his widest audience as the "little old winemaker" of 1960s TV commercials; in Hollywood...
Somewhere underneath this level come the literary middlemen, storytellers who can really sell a joke or raise your hackles with suspense. Though their ideas be meagre and their verbal powers limited, they often pack the widest popular punch, and persuasively reflect the pervasive attitudes...
...credit, Ziegler sought the widest possible audience in selecting 24 newspaper correspondents who represent 119 dailies. But he gave spots to Columnists William Buckley, Joseph Kraft and Richard Wilson, who presumably could analyze just as well from afar. He also awarded one place to the Reader's Digest, which has cordial relations with Nixon but neither covers the White House regularly nor is truly in the news business. The White House Correspondents Association protested the exclusion of four newspapers and radio chains that staff the White House full time...
...like Minor White's Being Without Clothes show last year at MIT). And although photography evades precise labeling as "art," "journalism," or just "information," this medium (in the words of critic Max Kozloff) "allows the most explicit record of the visual world we have, and can still evoke the widest and most contradictory interpretations. One needs no further proof of its modernity than that...