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...embarrassing gaffes. Obviously cheered by the friendly throngs that surrounded him whenever he appeared in public, the President at one point declared that it was "a great day for France." In fact, it was a national day of mourning. At the U.S. embassy, Nixon startled British Prime Minister Harold Wilson by enthusiastically grabbing his face with both hands, Italian "good-ta-see-ya" style. Then, motioning toward a blonde woman in Wilson's entourage, the President asked: "Is that the one we've been hearing about?" It was an obvious and tactless reference to Wilson's private...
When the committee met, Doar related St. Clair's offer. Massachusetts Democrat Harold Donohue nevertheless quickly offered a motion to subpoena all of the requested tapes by April 25. That is three days after the end of the Easter recess, and it more than met St. Clair's original request for added time to review. Donohue then moved that debate on his motion be limited to a half-hour (less than a minute for each of the 38 members). That set off Republican complaints...
...Present value: around $12,000. A landscape owned by a man from Long Island turned out to be the work of the 18th century English painter Thomas Patch, worth a patch above $30,000. A Connecticut man brought in a trifle inherited from his Uncle Harold that was diagnosed as a contemporary portrait of George Washington on glass ($300). A man from New York brought in a musty print by Albrecht Durer...
...Died. Harold Vincent (Hal) Boyle, 63, Associated Press writer for 30 years, whose daily columns chronicling the lives of ordinary people appeared in nearly 500 papers; of a massive heart attack following contraction of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ("Lou Gehrig's disease"); in Manhattan. Boyle joined the A.P. as a copy boy in Kansas City in 1928, advanced to editor and foreign correspondent and won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his war dispatches from Europe. His homey, highly personal column was born in Italy in 1943, when he began reporting the experiences of G.I.s at the front. After...
Died. Richard Howard Stafford Grossman, 66, brilliant British leftist; of cancer of the liver; in Banbury, England. The burly intellectual, famed for his trenchant criticism of British society and politics, went to Parliament as a Laborite in 1945, later served in Prime Minister Harold Wilson's first Cabinet and as leader of the House of Commons. From 1970 to 1972, he edited the New Statesman, the influential left-wing weekly to which he had contributed for years...