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...Harry Vaughan, accepted a freezer from a manufacturer and survived the uproar. Dwight Eisenhower fired his chief of staff, Sherman Adams, for giving Government favors to an industrialist and taking a vicuña coat and an Oriental rug from him. Jimmy Carter defended his Budget Director and crony, Bert Lance, until Lance quit under charges that he had permitted relatives to overdraw their accounts in a bank he had headed. And then, of course, there were Richard Nixon's Watergate transgressions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Question of Ethics | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...slowing Mondale's drive toward an early lock on the nomination. To do so, Jackson would have to show unexpectedly well on "Super Tuesday," March 13, when primaries will be held in Alabama, Georgia, Florida and three other states. "His next move is critical," said Georgia Democratic Chairman Bert Lance. "He still has the basic problems of money and organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stepping on Mondale's Lines | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...Rolling Stone Keith Richards and his longtime girlfriend, Model Patti Hansen, 27, was more flash than fiesta. Best Man Mick Jagger, 40, flew in from Barbados, where he has been under cover with Girlfriend Jerry Hall, 27. Richards' divorced parents were there: Doris, in from London, and Bert, in from New York. Also present were Patti's mother, sister, three brothers and a few fishermen. After the short ceremony, guests were treated to the mellow sounds of a mariachi band. Looks like this tuxedo-clad Stone, who turned 40 the same day, may finally be starting to slow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 2, 1984 | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

...Once the defendant is made aware that we are serious about protecting our witnesses, the problem is solved," says Bert Graham of the Houston district attorney's office. Texas is one of several states that have imposed tough, additional sentences on any defendant found guilty of intimidation. The American Bar Association's model statute on the subject, adopted in whole or in part by Congress and five states, recommends such harsh penalties, as well as broad judicial power for police to protect witnesses who the court perceives are in danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Witness as Target | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

...Eyed Jacks (1961) and Blazing Saddles (1974), but whose indelible screen moment was his cowboy-hat-waving, yeehah-ing ride on a nuclear bomb dropped on the Russkies in Dr. Strangelove (1964); of lingering complications after the 1982 removal of a brain tumor; in Modesto, Calif. Born Louis Bert Lindley Jr., he changed his name in the 1930s when he became a rodeo clown and bronco buster, explaining his new moniker "was a natural, considerin' that in those days you didn't make a dime doin' rodeos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 19, 1983 | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

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