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...House. In the beginning there was virtual anarchy. Ford did not rule, and neither did anybody else. White House staffers wandered into the Oval Office pretty much as they pleased and so did innumerable outsiders paying courtesy calls. The President was determined not to repeat the mistake of his predecessor and isolate himself from the outside world. He gave a warm welcome to practically anybody and ushered in a short-lived era of good feelings...
...DOUGLAS DILLON, 65, Secretary of the Treasury from 1961 to 1965 and now an investment banker on Wall Street. A friend of Rockefeller's from school days, he took part in forming the Office of Strategic Services (predecessor of the CIA) during World War II. As Under Secretary of State, he helped concoct the false cover story that Francis Gary Powers' U-2 reconnaissance plane was merely on a weather-scouting flight when shot down by the Soviets...
...William E. Colby in a secret accounting to President Gerald Ford. Colby is said to have told Ford that the CIA had maintained files on thousands of Americans, although he contended that only a fraction were under active surveillance. He also is said to have insisted that when his predecessor, James Schlesinger, became director in 1973, he halted the domestic spying on U.S. citizens, which had violated the law limiting the CIA to foreign operations...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. David L. "Maxim" Gorski, the new chief of University police, sees Death Wish 15 times and shoots seven students bicycling in the Yard through the knees. "Dave has a lot to learn about how we do things at Harvard," Robert Tonis, Gorski's predecessor, comments...
...past few years, robot spacecraft have surveyed the planet Mars in exquisite detail, sent back the first closeup pictures of Venus and Mercury, and penetrated the powerful radiation belts surrounding the sun's largest satellite, Jupiter. Now, after sweeping even closer to Jupiter than did its predecessor, Pioneer 10, last December, Pioneer 11 is beginning the long trip to its next target: Saturn...