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No Means. At a tense Summa board meeting on May 18, Davis led the directors in voting down every one of Lummis' proposals. Lummis got angry. At a May 26 meeting, he kicked Davis off the board, though Davis remains general counsel ("One thing at a time," explains a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESTATES: Battle for the Shrinking Millions | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

Just how close are Burns and Carter? Liberals fear that they might be turning into the political Odd Couple of all time-Carter the grinning lifelong Democrat; Burns the somber, smoke-wreathed Republican. Burns, after all, was Dwight Eisenhower's chief economic adviser, Richard Nixon's Counsellor and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICY: Arthur Burns: Born Again at 73 | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

The evening that Barnes was arrested, Dellacroce Confidant Guido ("Dolls") DeCurtis was shot to death on Manhattan's East 28th Street in full view of passers-by and a policeman. The officer arrested a suspect, Canadian Joseph Djaija, 26. Some law enforcement officials believe DeCurtis was killed because of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE MAFIA Big, Bad and Booming | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

In July 1975, after Nixon had signed his $2 million memoirs contract, he sent his agent, Irving ("Swifty") Lazar, to talk to the TV networks in New York. When Frost found out about this he offered Nixon a flat $500,000 for four shows. NBC was also bidding, and Lazar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: NIXON TALKS | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

Died. Charles McMoran Wilson, Lord Moran, 94, Winston Churchill's personal physician and confidant for 25 years; in Hampshire, England. Moran gave up his private practice in 1940 after members of the Cabinet persuaded him to care for Churchill, then 65. The doctor and his patient shared an interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 25, 1977 | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

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