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Word: boye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...targets as the oil-and-gas industry, tax-deductible-martini drinkers, Congress, unmarried couples who live together, smokers, tax-depreciable yachts. Carter, it has been suggested, may now be approaching the point where it will be easier to list those he has not officially frowned on-morticians, country singers, Boy Scouts, missionaries and Billy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Perils of Giving 'Em Hell | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...children, three girls and a younger boy. shared the agonizing 54-day vigil with their white-haired 62-year-old mother, the daughter of an M.D. Son Giovanni, 20. a law student at the University of Rome, and the youngest daughter. Agnese. 26. a university student, lived with their parents in a comfortable duplex on Rome's suburban Via del Forte Trionfale. The second daughter, Anna Giordano, 29. a pediatrician reputedly as meditative and complex as her father, came home again to await word. Anna, although seven months pregnant, at one point evaded reporters, walked a quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Death in the Family | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...heavy Soviet-Cuban response but South Africa's early move to send troops to support Savimbi. The South African forces moved in so swiftly that they almost captured Angola's capital, Luanda, before independence came. As for the CIA itself, Stockwell ridicules it as a bungling old-boy outfit fraught with favoritism and burdened with middle-grade mediocrities. He calls William Colby, who was CIA director in Stockwell's time, "a disciplined, amoral bureaucrat, who fawned over the politicians and game-players on [Capitol] Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Our War in Angola | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

Colby, for his part, is equally blunt about Stockwell's treatment of his former employer: "If he says that suddenly it didn't turn out to be the Boy Scouts, I think he was asking a little much." Colby concedes that the U.S. shipped arms for Angola. But he denies that Americans were actively involved in the fighting-although "our people" sometimes went into Angola "to check up on what was going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Our War in Angola | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

Margaret and "the Jones boy "call it quits

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Ending a Royal Marriage | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

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