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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...successfully. TIME correspondents in Boston did not have to use the helmets, but Chicago Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate, Correspondent Richard Woodbury and Photographer James De Free all encountered overt hostility in Louisville: when a group of angry citizens recognized Woodbury as a reporter, they tried to run his car off a back road with their pickup truck; De Free was the target of a bottle-throwing demonstrator...
...Soviets claimed that it would be in Marina's own best interests to leave. Reason: she faces possible prosecution for a 1974 traffic accident involving a Soviet citizen who had borrowed her car. Oddly, Soviet authorities seemed to pay no attention to Marina's role in the auto accident until last January, when she began living with Spassky. Says Spassky: "Never before have I been as humiliated as in the past three months, since they started this against Marina." Late last week, however, there were reports that the Kremlin may be relenting and will no longer...
...like Philadelphia's Mayor Frank Rizzo, whose official salary is $434 a week. But according to a series of stories in the Philadelphia Daily News, he has invested more than $400,000 in a swank new home in the Chestnut Hill section-including $20,000 for a three-car garage, $30,000 for stonework and $7,000 for a patio. "These are pure and simple political charges made by a newspaper that blatantly seeks to influence the outcome of the mayoral election in November," responded Mayor Rizzo. "This is a sad day for journalism...
Using coded numbers referring to prearranged assembly points, a good many of the car-borne rioters cruising the streets when school busing began in the Louisville area a week ago brought a new weapon to the arsenal of the urban demonstrator: the citizens' band radio. When local officials realized that elusive troublemakers had been keeping track of the cops as well as each other through these inexpensive two-way sets, they struck back in kind. They obtained a powerful transmitter of their own and used it to jam CB channels with loud signals whenever the chatter indicated that rioters...
...first invaded the air waves in force during the 1973 oil embargo, when speed limits were dropped to 55 m.p.h. and truck drivers installed the units to warn each other of radar traps. In the past year, the vogue has spread to a vast and vocal number of private-car owners, who have tied into a short-wave system* that today links an estimated 6 million radio sets. For most of its users, the CB system has become a new information-and-entertainment radio network of the road...