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...Vogel) spends most of his time hanging out with a casually amoral employee of his grandfather's named Boon Hogganbeck (Steve McQueen). When Grandfather (Will Geer) and the rest of the family leave town for a few days, Boon borrows their prize possession-a gleaming and glorious yellow Winton Flyer. He persuades Lucius to tell a string of whoppers to the relatives caring for him and, in the company of a genial black man named Ned McCaslin (Rupert Crosse), drives downstate to the big city. Boon wants to see his girl Corrie (Sharon Farrell), a particularly comely employee...
...friends often, especially George White Jr., the family lawyer who presides over the Agnew family assets of some $100,000. Although his weekends are always subject to interruptions, Agnew has managed to trim off 15 lbs. by playing tennis, often with G.O.P. National Chairman Rogers Morton or Postmaster General Winton Blount. One thing that Agnew has not sacrificed is his pro football : this season he has made it to five Colts games, usually ducking into the locker room before kickoff to wish the team luck...
...Scott's biggest problems is the parlous state of relations between Republican Senators and "downtown," an often pejorative Capitol Hill term for the executive branch. John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky has been getting no answers to his letters to Postmaster General Winton Blount; when Blount invited Cooper to his office recently to talk over a Post Office problem, Cooper refused to come. Colorado's Peter Dominick is still seething over a contretemps with a second-echelon Treasury Department official, and even Karl Mundt of South Dakota-a staunch Nixon loyalist-complains of the "remoteness" of Administration staffers...
Paradoxically, whatever chance the Administration proposal will have in Congress depends less on Nixon's Postmaster General, Winton (Red) Blount, than on that Democratic stalwart, Lawrence F. O'Brien. Blount admits that he has developed a reputation as being "the worst politician in Washington," and there are few on the Hill who would disagree. He avoided consulting with congressional leaders on the new proposal until the last minute, for instance, and has remained practically unknown to the postal workers' union chiefs. O'Brien's political powers are obviously needed to soften the opposition...
Executive Roster. As in previous Administrations, Democrat and Republican alike, Nixon has placed a large number of businessmen high in the Government. His twelve-man Cabinet includes seven former bankers, corporate lawyers and business executives: John Mitchell, David Kennedy, George Romney, John Volpe, Walter Hickel, Maurice Stans and Winton Blount. Many businessmen now occupy sub-Cabinet posts that often were filled by professors and civil servants...