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While leaden skies drip rain, a twin-engine Convair rolls up the ramp at the Albany, N.Y., airport. Out step Barry Goldwater and Wife Peggy. There to greet them are Governor Nelson Rockefeller and his wife, Happy. The overheard conversation...
...Garage Owner Guest took the Fifth Amendment 16 times. But he had already made a statement to the FBI, and it too was admitted into evidence by Judge Skelton. In it Guest told of overhearing a conversation between Sims and Myers the day after Penn's killing: "I overheard one of them say that they thought the car they had shot had gone into the river," said Guest. Next night, he said, "they told me that they were the ones that shot at the car in which Penn was killed...
...biography have become almost inseparable." To demonstrate what a psycho-biographer can do when he sets his intuitions to work, Psychologist Kiell presents a series of post-mortem analyses of famous Americans as seen by an array of psychologists and psychiatrists. Most of them read like psychiatric small talk overheard at a literary cocktail party...
Needled Agent. The Russian spy mania requires battalions of clerks to transcribe, translate and file what has been overheard, as well as "evaluators" to judge its significance. A U.S. official concedes that the Moscow bugs may have picked up "potentially useful fragments," but adds that "getting them sorted out and fitting them together would require a very large investment in time and effort for a potentially small return...
...another wave of coup rumors rippled through Saigon, then subsided. No one realizes more clearly the possible repercussions of another coup than U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, who has been the No. 1 symbol of all-out support for Khanh. At a Washington cocktail party recently, McNamara was overheard to quip: "If Khanh goes, the President is going to have to get another Secretary of Defense...