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A former Navy captain who has demonstrated a career-long obsession with loyalty to his superiors?as a submarine officer, a Pentagon naval aide and in second-level posts in the Nixon Administration?Gray was selected by Nixon as acting director because of, above all else, that subservience. And it...
Kleindienst and Mardian discussed possible successors, concentrating on three veteran FBI men and William C. Sullivan, former No. 3 man at the FBI. He had been forced out of the bureau by Hoover in 197 1 because he had disagreed too often with Hoover's ideas (TIME, Oct. 25, 1971...
Across the concourse in Chicago, Dennis Pearson sits in a beach chair behind his entry, a 1967 El Camino pickup truck chromed and painted and gussied up into a real showstopper. Pearson, 26, a stocky, crew-cut body-shop owner from Louisville, began a year ago to repair the engine...
Theodor Ziolkowski's introduction is not overly enlightening. It seems particularly shallow to maintain only that Hesse, in his obsession with "his own consciousness and its place in a timeless reality," remains true to himself from start to finish. There is no denying that Hesse usually weaves an introspective tale...
Benny's obsession with celebrities and their commonplaces is finally inflated by the author and even charged with a kind of spurious nobility. The question -should Benny sell out?-begins as a joke, a preposterous dilemma. Then Lahr's sympathy for Benny, Lahr's eagerness to lend...