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JOHN MITCHELL. He was one of Nixon's closest friends and political confidants. But the President was willing to let Mitchell take the rap for overseeing Watergate, drawing the heat away from the White House?if a way could be found to get him to agree. The disclosure bore out Martha Mitchell's celebrated telephone call on March 31, 1973, which seemed wildly improbable at the time. She complained to a reporter: "I think this Administration has turned completely against my husband...
...year later he made a real name for himself-California 845200. This time he was in San Quentin on a two-year, nine-month rap for attempting to hold up a bar in his home town, Bakersfield. As cocky and uncontrollable as they come, he steamed up some home brew under the guards' noses-and got caught. As his 21st birthday rolled around, he found himself in solitary confinement with only pajama bottoms, a Bible and a blanket on a cement floor to call his own. At long last he was convinced that something was wrong with...
...Cadets have earned the same rap that often applies to the mediocre baseball player--"they are all run, no field." Unfortunately for the Army platoon, any team which expects to knock off the Crimson must have at least some semblance of a field contigent. "We don't have anything in the long jump and triple jump, and the high jump should be no problem for Harvard," a candid Crowell said...
Superman. Superman is jailed on a bum rap but he refuses to escape. An inspiration to us all. Ch. 27, 5 p.m. 1/2 hour...
...three years ago: "Stay in on him, keep him moving back, don't give him the big punch." Constant forced retreat, he is sure, will exhaust Ali. As usual Frazier is not intimidated by any of Ali's verbal attacks. "Ali can rap," Joe says. "I can fight...