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...Harvey Wheeler, senior fellow for the center, said Friday in California that the Senate Committee is in "a state of near panic" as the deadline for their report--late February--approaches. The committee, Wheeler added, has "need for any help they...
...raspy voice shatters the static, like the roar of a Mack truck rolling by a Volkswagen: "Breaker, break to any westbound diesel. Is the chicken coop open up ahead?" The answer crackles back from the cab of an 18-wheeler lumbering across Indiana: "It's open and the hen is inside the little white church...
...MEREDITH WHEELER...
When Connie B. Wheeler, a veteran CCA councillor, announced that she would retire at the end of 1969, Moncreiff decided that he would attempt to take her place. "I'd like to say I was urged," Moncreiff says laughingly, "but I can't recall anyone asking me to run." He won with surprising ease and assumed his seat on the Council in January...
...clearly would have preferred former Treasury Secretary John Connally. In fact, the Texan had expected to get the nomination. But Democrats in the House and Senate mounted a vociferous lobbying campaign against Connally, saying they would not vote for the man -whom they described as a fat cat, wheeler-dealer and turncoat-under any circumstances. Even some Republicans sent word to Nixon that they would not vote to approve Connally. Declared Massachusetts Representative Silvio Conte: "I will accept anyone the President sends up except Connally." Conte went so far as to work the cloakrooms against Connally, reminding Northern Congressmen...