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Mitchell "leaked" the information that Minority Leader Hugh Scott promised to vote for Haynsworth if his vote made the difference; the "leak" was false, designed to force Scott into making it come true. Scott voted nay. Democrat Thomas Dodd was reportedly threatened with indictment over his alleged misuse of campaign funds; rumor had it that he was shown the indictment. But he too voted no. "During my more than seven years in the Senate," said conservative Idaho Republican Len Jordan, "few issues have generated more pressure on my office. Support of the President is urged as if it were...
EARLIER in the week, a liquid-hydrogen fuel tank had sprung a leak and threatened to delay the launch. Now, less than an hour before the late-morning blastoff, dark clouds rolled ominously across the last patches of blue in the Florida sky; a drizzling rain turned into a heavy downpour that virtually blotted pad 39A from view. But NASA officials, buoyed by a long string of space successes, were undaunted by the dangerous omens. The order was given to proceed. More reliable than any commuter train, the 11:22 moon rocket departed from Cape Kennedy. It was on schedule...
...stink bomb has just begun to spread its vomit-inducing juices through the tenth floor of the New Mobe offices here in Washington. It is the second in two days. Yesterday, believing that the yellow-gray gas pipes in the old office building had sprung a leak, marshals and workers began evacuating...
...York's Taconic Parkway with the cheerleaders. The toll-taker there told me that hitching is illegal, but that he didn't care what I did. He'd hitched as a boy. "It's illegal to use our john, too," he said, "but if you take a leak outside. they'll get you for indecent exposure. I'm all for it-not indecent exposure, but I still like my sex." He told me to pretend I didn't know him as I thumbed two feet away from his booth. But he waved goodbye when I got picked...
...expect him to leak secrets," says one correspondent. "But he doesn't explain when he could, or give the feel of things he sat in on." Ziegler's performance is due in part to the tight leash that leads from his neck to the Oval Office. As sometime policymakers themselves, Eisenhower's James Hagerty and L.B.J.'s Bill Moyers were allowed latitude in talking to the press. But this is Ziegler's first big Government job. He left a Los Angeles advertising firm to work on the campaign and after Nix-en's victory...