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...members of the current city council-Cornelia B. Wheeler (CCA) and Bernard Goldberg (Ind.)-are not running for re-election; where their votes go will be important in determining the other two members of the new council. In Wheeler's case, it is pretty clear: By a process somewhat akin to a laying-on of hands, she has been backing Robert P. Moncreiff, a former Rhodes Scholar and like her, CCA and a Republican. With this vote, Moncreiff seems to have a pretty good chance of election. The old Goldberg vote, on the other hand, will probably scatter; some...
Dwight E. Sergeant, Curator of the Nieman Fellowships, and William M. Pinkerton, Harvard University News Officer (both former Nieman Fellows), are standing members of the Nieman Selection Committee. Dean May replaces William Liller '48 Robert Wheeler Wilson Professor of Astronomy, as the third Harvard officer on the committee...
Cambridge city councillor Cornelia Wheeler, present at the meeting, said she felt "much enthusiasm" for the plan, and criticized the Harvard Businessmen's Association for what she called its "apathetic, content" attitude...
While McCormack acknowledged knowing Voloshen, he denied that the dapper wheeler-dealer used the Speaker's suite as his headquarters: "He's a friend of mine, but he's not in my office much." Reporter Smith's investigation indicated otherwise. On Sept. 25, Smith asked for Voloshen in the Speaker's office. An aide said: "We haven't seen Mr. Voloshen today, but he may come in." The assistant also furnished the telephone number and address of the attorney's Manhattan office. Last year, in an interview with the Washington Post, Sweig called...
...maintain a lucrative law practice. In fact, his CIA connections lengthened his list of clients and for a while he was making $60,000 a year. Then, at the CIA's suggestion, he began cooperating with the FBI because of his developing contacts with gangsters. Itkin became a wheeler-dealer within Mafia circles, functioning, for instance, as a middleman and graft collector on loans made by Teamsters Union pension funds. He would pass on a percentage to the gangsters, while keeping a cut for himself...