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...named John Surratt built a two-story clapboard house in the Maryland countryside about ten miles from Washington, D.C. Soon it served as a tavern, polling place, post of fice and home for the Surratt family, and the area became known as Surrattsville. After Surratt died in 1862, his widow Mary leased the building and moved to Washington, where she opened a boardinghouse. It was there, in 1865, that John Wilkes Booth plotted the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. One of Booth's associates, John Lloyd, turned state's evidence and implicated Mrs. Surratt in the conspiracy...
...mail of many people not on the list was also scrutinized. Among them: Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, Senator Hubert Humphrey, Senator Edward Kennedy, Congresswoman Bella Abzug, Martin Luther King, his widow Coretta and Jay Rockefeller, a likely Democratic candidate for Governor of West Virginia. Church had a personal quarrel with the CIA because it had opened a letter that he wrote to his mother-in-law in Boise, Idaho, while he was touring Russia in 1971. Also routinely monitored was mail to or from Harvard University and the Ford and Rockefeller foundations...
...York City. The Emperor and his wife will stay in the Waldorf-Astoria's eight-room presidential suite and hold court in a gold-screened "throne room" set up in the Waldorf s grand ballroom. Also on their calendar: a meeting with General Douglas MacArthur's widow Jean, who lives at the Waldorf...
Professor Rogers, a widow, had been interim president ever since the regents last fall abruptly fired Stephen Spurr, a former graduate dean at the University of Michigan (TIME, Oct. 28). But few on the 42,000-student Austin campus thought she would take over the job permanently. In fact, when the regents started searching for a new president, they agreed to work with a twelve-member student-faculty search committee. The committee screened 300 candidates and finally came up with five finalists; it specifically rejected Professor Rogers on four separate votes. Nevertheless, soon after the start of classes this fall...
...British troops. The I.R.A. has been trying for years to enlist Hennessy's technical skills in their struggle, but he has always resisted. Even after the tragedy, he remains a loner. He books himself a one-way ticket on the morning flight to London, hides out with the widow of an I.R.A. friend (Lee Remick), and starts putting together his fantastic plot...