For six heady days the Fair Dealing New York Post's energetic Editor James Wechsler, 37, was sitting on top of the world. Jubilantly, Wechsler pounded out an editorial describing his paper's beat on the Nixon fund as a "time bomb," jeered at the rest of the U.S. press for ignoring it or playing it down when it first broke. Wrote he: "The story might have been greeted with more immediate and general press enthusiasm if a Democratic nominee had been involved." But after Nixon gave his television speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) it quickly became clear that the Post's beat had boomeranged;...
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