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...hand and got to know poor blacks. Out of that experience has grown his conviction that everyone ought to share well in the rewards of the System. Deffet was born and reared in Columbus, attending Catholic schools and later the University of Dayton for two years. After an Army hitch in an Alaska ski troop and several years in his father-in-law's Columbus real estate business, he struck out on his own with $10,000 in borrowed money. Now, twelve years later, a modishly dressed Deffet operates from a plush, mahogany-paneled office...
...televised Senate committee hearings on Watergate chaired by North Carolina's Sam Ervin, which resumed last week, seem to be moving rapidly toward pivotal sessions in which the former officials closest to the President will take their places in that highly revealing forum. The only potential hitch is the repeated effort by Archibald Cox, the special Watergate prosecutor, to prevent full televised airings of the testimony of key witnesses. So far rebuffed by unanimous opposition from the Ervin committee to any delay in its hearings, Cox has now retreated to a court plea that the testimony of John Dean...
...eyelashes. The man: British Actor Peter Sellers, 47, whom Liza had been visiting for a week or so on the set of his new film Soft Beds and Hard Battles. "I suppose we shall live in London now," Liza added, declining to say whether they would get married. One hitch, of course, is that Sellers is currently wed. Meanwhile, there was Liza's previous engagement to Desi Arnaz Jr., 21, to dispose of. According to Liza, it just melted. Actress Britt Ekland, the second of Sellers' three wives, was not impressed. "He must have used...
...major hitch to coal-gasification schemes is cost; all the heating and processing must take place in expensive aboveground plants. But Physicist Glenn C. Werth and his colleagues at the AEC's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California have proposed a less expensive alternative. They believe that it may be possible to create methane in the earth by forcing oxygen and water into fractures created with the help of explosives in coal seams. The cost, they figure, would be between 400 and 600 per 1,000 cu. ft., less than the price of liquefied natural gas now delivered from overseas...
...tariff system that would permit much more crude oil to be imported at higher prices. If that step is taken, Administration officials are convinced that the nation can get through the summer suffering nothing worse than localized gasoline shortages and some rise in prices. There is one major hitch: if refineries produce enough gasoline to meet peak demand this summer, they may have to curtail heating-oil output enough to threaten more chillouts next winter...