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...Precious Secrets. Congressman Nixon made much of the films. He was photographed peering at them through a magnifying glass. When the Justice Department asked for them, he declared that he could not turn over such precious "State and Navy Department" secrets unless the House approved, but he soon released them. When Hiss was tried for perjury, only two of the films (the two already developed) were introduced; prints from them showed State Department documents relating to U.S.German relations in the late '30s. Despite their fame, however, a prominent evidence expert, Professor Irving Younger of Cornell Law School, writes...
Things, however, are not always what they seem. This new army of liberal democrats took office (except for the senator from New Hampshire, who remains to be seated) more than six mouths ago, but nothing much has happened. There has been precious little progress made against racism, military lunacy, social injustice, perennial pollution, executive government, and sexism; and only a false veneer of success on the newly-important economic front. And no one knows what to do about any one of them. Ford smiles a lot and vetoes a lot, but he is not now, and never will be capable...
...result has been a drop in school enrollment, with a consequent reduction in precious state...
...that is the extent of his contact with officialdom. He and Gayle make only rare visits to Washington, although they talk to the President or Mrs. Ford at least once a week by telephone. Mike insists that the family's times together now, though rarer, are somehow more precious for being less frequent. "I've found we've really cherished our time together," he says, "just sitting around talking and showing each other pictures. I think the joy of those times has become intensified...
...needed resiliency to survive. Her youth was permanently maimed by a suffocating, overambitious mother who called her only "Little Precious." Her puerile "maturity" was filled with weeks of chain-smoking and drinking straight gin. Carson was hardly into her 20s when she suffered the first of several strokes. Anemia, pleurisy, a rheumatic heart and cancer followed in lethal succession. She was afflicted with a melodramatic bisexuality, a condition that made her fall in love with husbands and wives. Like the protagonist in her story A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud, she could say: "Son, I can love anything." Nevertheless, Biographer...