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Rubbed the wrong way. Congressmen began to counterattack. Some pointed out that Sprague's budget request was almost eight times the $1.7 million expended for Nixon's impeachment inquiry and Ford's confirmation hearings put together. Congressman Dale Milford demanded "hard evidence" that the Warren Commission had been wrong in declaring that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone when he shot Kennedy. Just before the House vote last week, a report leaked that the Justice Department had confirmed its finding that James Earl Ray had indeed been acting alone when he shot King...
...Massie, author of the 1967 bestseller Nicholas and Alexandra. In 1968 Massie received a $130,000 advance from Atheneum for his next book, a biography of Peter the Great. The manuscript was due in June 1971. By then Massie was only midway through the project. When Atheneum refused his request for another $370,000 advance, the author set aside Peter, and with his wife wrote Journey, a book about their hemophiliac son, for Knopf...
...Symphony/Boston Pops is holding this weekend. What a dream-come-true that would be for George Plimpton '48, a Harvard Poonie and pro-athlete aspirant, if he were in town. Four days of around-the-clock broadcasts of the most stupendous Bosox games of all time at Plimpton's request. Watching the game from the bullpen. Meetings with his idols in the clubhouse. My own pulse accelerates at the thought of what such an opportunity would do to the pulse rate of the little freckled kid next door with the mustard-stained red-and-white striped polo shirt. But Plimpton...
...pledging works, if you now feel guilty enough to carry through is this: Select one or more gift premiums from the catalogue available by calling 262-8700 (after determining how much you wish to pledge). If you pledge $20 or more, you may choose a musical request from over 1000 exclusive performances taped by the BSO at Tanglewood, Symphony Hall, and in Europe, under the batons of Koussevitsky, Leinsdorf, Much, Ozawa. Your choice selection will be broadcast over WCRB in the 4-day period. These recording are not available at the Coop, Strawberries, or any other record dealer...
...refusing the workers' request for unemployment benefits last summer, the University presented evidence that the dining halls had offered--and the employees had turned down--temporary jobs to tide them over the summer period...