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Harried and hurried, AT&T's 227,000 supervisory personnel worked shifts as long as 14 hours to fill in for the strikers. Thanks to the high level of automation in the phone system, most service continued to be remarkably smooth. Direct-dial calls generally zipped through the computerized...
That era came to mind last week as he recalled forgeries perpetrated by such Watergate "dirty tricksters" as Howard Hunt, who doctored State Department cables, and Donald Segretti, who used Edmund Muskie's stolen campaign stationery to disseminate malicious falsehoods about other Democratic candidates. "In fact, you could say...
The shoeless Ambassador reclines on a chaise longue that is covered with classified cables. In a Churchillian pose, he holds a thick cigar in one hand and shoos away his old English sheep dog, Wellington, with the other. Deane Hinton then offers TIME'S Timothy Loughran some frank views...
In the years since the release of the Merian C. Cooper classic King Kong, time has taken its toll on the beast and his splendid art-deco perch. The Empire State Building is no longer the world's tallest building, and King Kong is not the young buck he...
Late one night in a suburban Denver parking lot, Stacey Johnson, then 19, was about to get into her car when Gary Tucker, 28, approached, saying that his pickup truck would not start. For two hours Johnson drove him around in search of jumper cables. When they returned to the...