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Denying all, Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams insisted that Jacobsen had actually pocketed the $10,000 himself and then pinned a bum rap on Connally. Jacobsen did that, said Williams, "to extricate himself from his troubles" after he had been indicted in an unrelated savings and loan scandal. Indeed, prosecutors dropped seven fraud charges against Jacobsen after he agreed to plead guilty to one count of offering gratuities and said that he would testify against Connally. Earlier, Jacobsen had testified six times to four other investigative bodies that Connally had not taken money from...
...more hopeful about a Middle East settlement now than you were a month ago?" The question was asked at a kind of political rap session held last week in the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in Rockville, Md. The leader was Hyman Bookbinder of the American Jewish Committee's capital office. The participants were 65 mostly middleaged, upper-middle-class Jews who gather with him each month. Lately the discussion has been chiefly about Israel and its prospects for peace and survival. Bookbinder watched carefully as slowly, hesitantly, one hand after another was raised until a clear majority signified...
...bored in the Traditional School. "I needed a push," she says, "so the Flexible School seemed like a good middle ground for me. Every Wednesday we do a lot of different things out of the classroom. I can participate in community workshops or field trips or set up a rap session with a teacher. I like that variety...
...this is an emergency, write 'Rush' on the letter. All letters will be judged on the basis of neatness and originality." Manhattan Psychiatrist Edward Hornick's electronic surrogate greets the caller with "Shrink, Inc." Some of the more innovative answering-machine users are massage parlors and "rap" studios. In its recorded message the Blue Orchid Studio of Kansas City, Mo., gets right to the point. "Hi," says a seductive, girlish voice. "Would you be interested in my warm, nude body?" One New York City resident, worried by a rash of break-ins in his neighborhood, finally added...