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...John D. Lofton Jr., 33, the former editor of the Republican weekly newsletter Monday. The transition from party polemicist to political columnist has not been easy for Lofton, who seems happier attacking personalities than discussing issues. His columns, carried by some 60 papers, occasionally amount to sophomoric japes. In one piece he calls Bella Abzug a "congressthing" to ridicule the feminist cause. Lofton has written no columns about impeachment...
Presidents Bok and Horner said Wednesday that they disapprove of a proposal by columnist William F. Buckley that would require students to complete a year of public service before entering college...
...Stout has no trouble dashing off a new Nero Wolfe every 39 days, and Isaac Asimov writes books the way most people sneeze. But the other authors find writing a painful process, especially as they grow older and fear losing their inspiration and energy. "The metronomic quality of a columnist's life is like Chinese water torture," says an unusually morose Russell Baker. "Wednesday Thursday Sunday, Wednesday Thursday Sunday. That stretches out in front of me till...
...Judge Thomas certain who it would be. While the judge waited, Kissinger played host at a select pre-wedding reception Saturday afternoon at the State Department's Madison Room. The few friends, invited only that morning, included General Brent Skowcroft, a member of the National Security Council, and Columnist Joseph Alsop. Also there were the Secretary's two children, Elizabeth, 15, and David, 12, by his first marriage, his brother Walter, and Nancy's brother David and her mother, Mrs. Albert Bristol Maginnes...
...trials themselves have a different complexion, with juries approximating the city's racial makeup. And juries virtually never vote to convict if there is any suspicion of police brutality. This, perhaps more than any other change, has brought court reformers into head-on collision with the police. A columnist wrote in the Detroit Police Officers' Association newspaper: "If a person accused of a crime appears before Judge James Del Rio and says he was beaten by the police, Del Rio calls the policeman a liar, and dismisses the case." Gary Lee, the association's president, declares...