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Thomas Enders is a towering (6 ft. 8 in.) Connecticut Yankee on whom the fates smiled. Born to wealth, educated at Yale and Harvard, he hurtled up through the State Department ranks until, when selected as envoy to Canada at age 43, he was the youngest U.S. ambassador anywhere. Now...
So begins the cover story on Thomas Jefferson in the most unusual issue that TIME has ever published. It is our Bicentennial issue dated July 4, 1776, and devoted to reporting the birth of a new nation just as if TIME reporters had been there. After almost a year of...
Their acquittal may well have resulted from Federal Judge Clarkson Fisher's instructions to the jury about the perils of entrapment by the Government. A paid FBI informer had been extremely active in the 1971 raid, supplying tools, strategy and training. Though the Supreme Court recently took a more...
The museum and the rich collection it houses are the almost single-handed achievements of one man-Sao Paulo's Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand ("Chatô") Bandeira de Mello, a short stout press lord with a considerable resemblance to New York's late Fiorello
Died. Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello, 75, Brazil's banty rooster of communications, whose interests were as lengthy as his name; of a heart attack; in Sao Paulo. Slick financing and a knack for marketing new ideas brought Chateaubriand an empire of newspapers, magazines, TV and radio...