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...conspiracy trial of John Ehrlichman, once President Nixon's top domestic aide, and three lesser members of the White House "plumbers" team got off to a dramatic start in Federal Judge Gerhard Gesell's Washington courtroom last week. Assistant Special Prosecutor William Merrill charged that a few weeks before Ehrlichman was forced to resign last year, he had secretly removed three incriminating memos from a file on the plumbers in the White House-but David Young, a co-director of the secret investigating unit, had foresightedly retained copies. Said Merrill to the jury, which consists of nine blacks...
...remotely part of the action is assured of a hero's welcome. Applications to journalism schools are at an alltime high, and many of the youngsters say that they want to be investigative reporters. Coverage of Watergate and related scandals has won four Pulitzer Prizes and a number of lesser awards. All the President's Men, the how-we-did-it book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, became a bestseller after three weeks in print, and glamorous Robert Redford, who bought the movie rights, will portray Woodward on the screen...
Sure, there was the IRA regatta in Syracuse, which called itself a national championship. But many of the heavier heavies--Harvard included--were consistent no-shows, suffering under the burden of final exams and leaving the laurels to such lesser powers as Wisconsin, who took the crown this spring...
...lesser roles, John Seidman makes much more of the servant Fabian than customary, Philip Carling is a dull and amateurish Valentine, Michael Levin is an adequate Antonio, and Tom McLaughlin speaks with too much preciosity for a Sea Captain...
...leaders may at least achieve that "conceptual breakthrough" Kissinger sought earlier. This would be an agreement on principles, a compromise that would maintain U.S. technical superiority and Soviet numerical superiority, that could then be worked out in detail by the bureaucrats. Additionally, the Moscow summit will undoubtedly produce several lesser accords, and every day will probably see one much-photographed session at which the two leaders will jointly affix their signatures to some document. "A signing a day keeps Rodino at bay," quips one White House...