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...urged him to cool his ardor for personal contact with the masses, at least until the frenzy, like the abated flurry of skyjackings, passes. "Mr. Ford is in effect baring his chest, sticking out his chin and daring every kook in the country to take another shot at him," Columnist Joseph Kraft protested. Even Betty Ford has told friends she hopes her husband will stay out of crowds and move faster when exposed. "The country needs him. The children need him. I need him," she told an intimate...
...hairy and scary as assassination plots come, and the alleged target was one of the nation's most prominent muckrakers, Columnist Jack Anderson. Or so, at least, reported another top journalist, the Washington Post's Bob Woodward. Last week he wrote that Watergate Burglar E. Howard Hunt told some of his former CIA associates "that he was ordered in December 1971, or January 1972, to assassinate Anderson." Citing "reliable sources," Woodward said the order came from "a senior official in the Nixon White House." A poison was to be supplied by a former CIA physician...
...massive stroke; in Washington, D.C. Bell joined the A.P. Washington bureau in 1937 and remained there for the next 32 years, writing a widely read, bylined daily column. A steady, reliable writer, he was respected for the soundness of his reporting but never established an imposing personality as a columnist. His chief preoccupation was the Chief Executive. In such books as The Splendid Misery (1960) and The Johnson Treatment (1965), Bell wrote about White House power politics and concluded that the Federal Government worked best when the President was strong enough to lead and dominate Congress...
...public" statement (suppose he wanted to say something about racism in Boston) would be adroitly buried by the press as extraneous. When Red Sox pitcher Bill Lee called Judge Garrity the only man in this town with any guts, the paper gave the statement virtually no play, and a columnist quickly huffed and puffed about how baseball and social criticism...
William Raspberry, a Washington Post columnist, writes: "A lot of us are wondering whether the busing game is worth the prize. Some of us aren't even sure just what the prize is supposed to be. Most whites have long since accepted the notion that segregation is wrong. But on the other hand, precious few whites, North or South, feel any guilt in resisting the disruption of their children's education by busing them to distant schools because those schools are 'too black.' Nor is there much more enthusiasm among black parents for large-scale busing for the primary purpose...