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...Ward Stevenson, a senior vice president of Hill & Knowlton Inc., public relations agency in Los Angeles: "Nixon made a bad mistake by surrounding himself with lawyers and admen. If they had been p.r. men, there would have been no Watergate coverup. We preach admitting mistakes, getting the facts out and the bad publicity behind us. I would encourage a voluntary appearance before the Senate committee, and regular press conferences...
...male-female ratio that President Bok announced two years ago has resulted in an increase of about 300 students. The new dorm, which will be called Canaday Hall after Ward M. Canaday '07, the Toledo, Ohio oil magnate who donated the $3 million building fee, will lessen the crowded housing conditions in the Yard and the Houses...
Thus, as Trainer Lucien Laurin saddled up Secretariat for last week's 105th running of the Belmont, his nervous statement that the horse was "very good, very quiet, very wonderful" seemed a kind of incantation to ward off the "Belmont jinx." Something worked. Secretariat not only defied history-he rewrote it, in one of the most astonishing triumphs in horse-racing annals...
...first glance, this description of the espionage burglary of a government office building, contained in a yellowing 1965 paperback called On Hazardous Duty, might seem to be a rather ordinary experience in the life of Ace CIA Agent Peter Ward. As the star of a series of fictional thrillers by David St. John, Ward has had far more exciting adventures. There was the time, for instance, when he was assigned to verify the identity of the man with the scarred face who was returning from 20 years in Soviet slave labor camps to claim the throne of Spain...
During the past 30 years, 20 of them spent working for the CIA, Hunt has managed to write no fewer than 47 novels under a string of pen names: John Baxter, Gordon Davis and Robert Dietrich, as well as David St. John. His chief characters are Agent Ward, a younger version of Hunt himself (they both went to Brown University), and a casual, thrill-hunting Washington C.P.A., Steve Bentley, who describes the nation's capital as "a great town if you've got the stamina of a Cape buffalo and the wealth of a Punjab prince." Most...