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DIED. Price Daniel Jr., 39, lawyer and reform-minded politician, onetime speaker of the Texas house of representatives and son of former Texas Governor and ex-U.S. Senator Price Daniel; of a gunshot wound inflicted by his wife Vickie, who had filed for divorce in December on the grounds that their four-year marriage was "insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities"; in Liberty, Texas. No charges have been filed, pending an investigation into the cause of the shooting...
Whew! A Defense Secretary soft on defense. Furthermore, Evans and Novak wrote, one William Howard Taft III "incredibly . . . has wound up on the list for the department's No. 3 post," though he has been known to confer with a Government official "whose views generally coincide with Senator George McGovern...
...body after it left Dallas long enough to retrieve the actual lethal bullets; these, Lifton says, were fired from the front of the motorcade in Dealey Plaza, not from the book depository behind the presidential convertible. The schemers, Lifton continues, enlarged Kennedy's head wound to conceal evidence that he had been shot from the front; they added two back wounds, which had not been seen by some 13 nurses and doctors handling the body at Parkland. Yes, writes Lifton, this had to be a plot "involving the Executive Branch of the Government" and including at least the Secret...
...years wound on and the film was postponed, Henry could have only grown more satisfied with his concept. Even the best scriptwriter couldn't have produced a funnier character than Gerald R. Ford. There he stood, simian-like in profile, first skidding down the steps of Air Force One into the waiting arms of the Secret Service and then, in the ongoing battle against inflation donning a big red button with the letters WIN embossed in white. And who can forget Ford's classic performance in the debate with a onetime peanut farmer, when in the century's greatest diplomatic...
DIED. Peter Gregg, 40, U.S. driver who had dominated sports-car racing since 1971; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in St. Johns County, Fla. Gregg, who drove modified Porsches to victory in 47 races and six annual championships of the International Motor Sports Association, once said: "Winning is no longer that important. I just don't want these other guys...