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...known, when you have to become a person," she says. "I'm already a person." Through a capable campaign staff, she is setting up a detailed district-targeting system for a get-out-the-vote effort where she is strongest. Rivals hope she will wound herself by playing the brash tartar; Congressman Koch and Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton try to goad her with cracks about self-discipline and lack of administrative ability. So far she has left the bait dangling...
...hours later, Tommie W. Overstreet went to a hospital with a bullet wound in the buttock. The prosecutor got a court order for a doctor to remove the bullet, which matched Adelstein's gun. Overstreet was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment...
Even before official publication, the report has drawn fire. Although the Vatican and the U.S. conference of bishops declined any formal comment, an editorial in Our Sunday Visitor, the biggest national Catholic weekly, fulminated that the report "exposes a festering wound in the church." William May, a Catholic University lay professor of morals, joined with five other conservative scholars to issue a statement condemning the report as "partisan in outlook, poor in scholarship, weak in argumentation, fallacious in its conclusions." Kosnik and his committee members are refusing to answer such criticisms until after next week's meeting...
Vulnerable Target. With reason, evidently. On the morning of May 7, firemen, summoned by a neighbor, broke into the Jackson house to put out a smoky blaze. They found Mrs. Jackson dead on the kitchen floor, a .22-cal. bullet wound in her stomach. Police, searching the house, soon found bizarre confirmation of the tales about her wealth. Stashed around the place, in toolboxes, drawers, a vacuum-cleaner bag and a garbage can, was some $5 million in crisp bank notes, mostly hundred-dollar bills. An investigation revealed that over a period of time, she had withdrawn at least...
...Jody dress up like Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for a May 19 article on "The White House Whiz Kids," the pair figured, why not? Photographer Annie Leibovitz picked up some odds and ends from a costume shop and the final ensemble wound up looking more like a cross between Butch Cassidy and The Sting. Says Leibovitz: "They were slickin' up for their pictures like country boys going to the city." But when she tried to get the President's men to pose in white ties, top hats and tails, they...