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...Pope and black holes, companion stories in an issue of TIME, reveal distinctive dimensions of the human mind that converge on mystery. Which mystery, if only one, will run its course and which will inspire the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1978 | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...tried a new approach. Herring went to Attorney W. Spencer Lee IV of Albany, Ga., and offered him a $10,000 retainer?in addition to a fee of $1 million?if he would set up a meeting with top White House Aide Hamilton Jordan, a school chum and tennis companion of Lee's. Vesco meanwhile told Herring and Dorminey that he would arrange for them to acquire $10 million worth of stock in a Panamanian company for $42,000, if they could get to somebody at the White House on his behalf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Vesco's Latest Caper | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...triggers, and one can only spare the odd suspicious thought for Colonel Rice (David Niven), who assists him in his investigation. But that leaves plenty of others: Bette Davis as a dowager with a taste for pearls of the sort the late-lamented sported; Maggie Smith as her nurse-companion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Camping in Style | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills. His two half brothers were already grown when he was born, and Robin spent hours alone in the family's immense house, tape-recording television routines of comics and sneaking up to the attic to practice his imitations. "My imagination was my friend, my companion," he recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Robin Williams Show | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

After brief stints at Claremont Men's College and the College of Marin, he and his companion decided to become performers. Although his indignant father advised him to study welding so he would at least have a marketable skill, Robin won an acting scholarship to the Juilliard School in New York, where he earned money performing mime in whiteface in front of the Metropolitan Museum. In 1976 he returned to San Francisco and met Valerie Velardi, a dancer whom he married last June. Valerie organized and catalogued his routines, and persuaded him to try his act in Los Angeles. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Robin Williams Show | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

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