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...state where such increases had to be approved by city officials, and they were frequent and large enough to make it traditionally one of the most profitable states in the entire Bell system. Ashley claims that Southwestern Bell officials were constantly wooing and bribing politicians in such cities as Austin and Dennison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Phone Calls and Philandering | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...company of giving top executives a $1,000 raise on the understanding that it was to be donated in $50 installments to a political slush fund. The pot was used for contributions to local and state officials friendly to Bell rate increases. Ward K. Wilkinson, the company's Austin lobbyist, admitted that he collected $1,200 a month from Bell executives for a political fund that was kept in cash in his office safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Phone Calls and Philandering | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...started on other Presidents. We have learned about the alleged loves of Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy. More stories about Richard Nixon's back-room shenanigans have emerged. Indeed, some have wondered why there were no new revelations on how L.B.J. got that TV monopoly in Austin and made millions. There were also as many whispers about him and girls as there were about

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: L.B.J.: The Softer They Fall | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

Closing In. Incredulous police strapped a tape recorder on Rothkopf's back and photographed him at half a dozen furtive meetings with Yarbrough, in an Austin motel room and various Houston parking lots and fast-food outlets. The tapes reveal a vengeful Yarbrough considering a murder contract on Bill Kemp, who had been given immunity from prosecution in return for testimony about Yarbrough's role in a 1974 fraud scheme. At the final meeting on June 10, however, Yarbrough turned cautious: "This is not the time to do it. The FBI is investigating me for all sorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Sins of Justice Yarbrough | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...precisely controlled passing shots; and Billie Jean King, 33, slowed by knee surgery, who fell to Chris Evert, 22, in the quarterfinals. The record-breaking and-by Wimbledon's well-bred standards-surprisingly rowdy crowds adopted as their darling a 14-year-old, pigtailed Californian named Tracy Austin. The youngest player in the history of the tournament, Tracy convincingly won her first match against Holland's Elly Vessies-Appel 6-3, 6-3. Her curtsy to the Duke of Devonshire might have been gangly legged and selfconscious, but her tennis was graceful and self-confident. She also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wimbledon: Youth Will Be Served | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

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