Word: cover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figure on this week's cover was little known a month ago, but, says Washington Economic Correspondent William Blaylock, "last week he seemed to eclipse every other newsmaker in the capital." Indeed, by announcing a tough new set of monetary measures, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul A. Volcker grabbed international attention and sent stock and money markets reeling around the globe. This week's cover story, written by Associate Editor Christopher Byron, examines both the hectic financial events of last week and the bold "Volckernomic" policies that triggered them...
...give up! Who's on the cover of this week's edition...
...pale colors in the portrait of Kissinger on the cover make him look pallid and sickly. You probably chose it thinking the glum look appropriate to the gravity of his memoirs...
...example, amounts to a piddling job in the Nixon administration as the President's Special Advisor on Youth Affairs. His office, hidden in the dank basement of the White House, becomes the resting place for large sums of illicit Watergate pay-off money, and when the break-in and cover-up arrests are made, he is duly escorted to a minimum-security prison in Georgia--undergoing the pains of prison minus the Watergate infamy...
...wants the record set straight--or at least set it his way--on the CIA's involvement in Watergate. Helms says Nixon fired him in 1973 and banished him to Iran (as ambassador) because the President was furious when Helms refused to enlist the CIA in the Watergate cover-up. The CIA was not directly behind the break-in (though some who were had worked for the Agency), says Helms, and the facts seem to back...