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...limited. He could storm the place and forcibly eject his hard-to-estrange wife, but at the risk of never winning another woman's vote in Maryland. As a friend of the Governor's observed: "If she goes, she'll have to go under her own steam." He could file for a Maryland divorce, but since it is contested, he could have as much as a three-year wait. If he sought a speedier divorce elsewhere, he would have to establish out-of-state residence, and thus give up his office...
...Yeah, I think there is. He can be fairly earthy in private, as most presidents are in private. And presidents have to be able to blow off steam in private, which they do--and he does. So there's a lot of stuff on these, I'm sure, that listened to in the whole context of that conversation, and of other conversations preceeding it and following it, and other things that were going on, are quite acceptable--but lifted out of context, could be used in all sorts of very grossly misleading ways damaging to him, damaging...
...Manhattan-based Gimbel Brothers, one of the nation's oldest department store chains. Lloyds Bank of London plans to take over Los Angeles' First Western Bank & Trust Co. for $115 million. A battle has erupted between Norwegian Shipping Magnate Hilmar Reksten and Britain's P & O Steam Navigation Co. over Texas-based Zapata Corp., a shipping, oil and real estate conglomerate. In the midst of P & O's negotiations to buy Zapata's shipping subsidiary, Reksten weighed in two weeks ago with an offer of $200 million for control of the entire company...
...most significance on the University budget is a $2.2 million automation plan which Harvard is undertaking. Alarms, electronic security doors similar to Eliot's, closed circuit television for security areas and other types of automated security will all be centralized by a network of computer cables running through the steam tunnels which connect University buildings...
Naturally, any mention of automation in the electronics field immediately arouses suspicions about snooping and invasions of privacy. Already, local opposition to Harvard's installation of electronic cables in its steam tunnels has begun. People Against National Identity Cards (PANIC) led the opposition last month. The group convinced the City Council to ask Harvard to stop laying the cables at least temporarily so a hearing can be held...