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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After fleeing prosecution on charges of masterminding a massive mutual-funds swindle and attempting to obstruct justice, Financier Robert Vesco has made himself about as accessible to newsmen as the Abominable Snowman. Thus it surprised the veteran journalists who had been trying to corner Vesco in his Costa Rican refuge that the first substantial interview with him appeared in the April 5 issue of the fledgling biweekly New Times-and was written by a novice, Neil Cullinan, a political science professor at Fort Valley State College in Georgia. Cullinan's coup was quickly matched by Washington Post Reporter Laurence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Visiting with Vesco | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

With others, you might have to pound the table and have a few drinks. The secret is to get the other guy as close to the corner as you can without pushing him against the wall." That first evening, Keating decided that the soft approach would be best with Bassett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Defection Deal | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

...Period Room, to go with its transplanted Louis Quinze paneling and reassembled colonial parlor: a Wesselmann and a Warhol Marilyn on the stainless-steel walls, a coffee table strewn with multiples and macadarnia nuts, a Panther poster above the vinyl settee, and under the supergraphic in the corner a waxwork group of Henry Geldzahler hustling that week's trend to a slim, wrinkled matron in bandoleers and Courrèges boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Instant Nostalgia of Pop | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

...flew to the Florida White House for a weekend discussion with Nixon about the future of economic policymaking machinery-and presumably his desire to play a larger role in it. Simon then closeted himself with White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig, who is apparently in Simon's corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Byzantine Fight for Power | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

...five years have passed, and Nathan Pusey's name, instead of being expunged from the University's records, is plastered around a corner of the Yard to tell us that big hole will be plugged with a library dedicated...

Author: By David N. Hollander, | Title: What Good Did It Do? | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

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