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Some even thought that his self-abnegation was a pose of some kind. But after L.B.J.'s presidency was capsized, Rusk withdrew further into his privacy. To have been Secretary of State was, for him, an honor without profit. Almost none of the bountiful lecturer's fees and foundation posts that have rewarded other public servants descended on him. His checkbook was almost depleted when he left the State Department, and it is probably thinner now. When a Rockefeller Foundation grant he received last year ran out, Rusk accepted a new job as professor of international...
After the Chestnut Hill Association, a neighborhood group representing 350 families, objected to the plan on the grounds that the event was not well enough supervised, Boston Mayor Kevin White withdrew permission Wednesday. White is currently a gubernatorial candidate in the September Democratic primary...
Several residents and young people from the Common area also came to the defense of the concerts, and Sullivan withdrew the resolution...
Three weeks ago the Nixon Administration agreed to help the railroad by letting the Defense Department underwrite $200 million in bank loans. But that plan ran into such severe political fire from key Democrats in Congress that the Administration withdrew its offer. The critics threatened to make an election issue out of the loan by portraying it as a bailout for the Administration's friends in big business and banking. "The potential for political mischief really scared people," says a top Administration official...
...apart from the other prisoners, and in January the State Attorney's office paid traveling expenses so that his brother, a police sergeant in Dade County, Fla., could come and talk to him. Shortly after his brother's visit, Kimbro changed his plea to guilty. His lawyer subsequently withdrew from the case after filing a motion which claimed Kimbro's constitutional rights had been violated because the interview with his brother had taken place with out his lawyer's permission or knowledge...