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Word: coverings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...director must now tackle a more sensitive problem: how to deal with the FBI's cover-up of its illegal activites. A key point is why James B. Adams, a veteran headquarters bureaucrat who is now associate director, swore before congressional committees that the black-bag jobs had ceased in 1968, and why missing records proving that they continued into the 1970s later turned up in his ofiice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Webster's Test | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

SWAPO tried to discourage foreign journalists from covering the election, contending that their presence would legitimize the proceedings. The SWAPO argument was echoed at the U.N. by the ambassadors from Zambia, Nigeria and Tanzania, who declared that reporters who attempted to cover the campaign would be doing a "disservice" to the U.N. While that seemed in line with a dubious belief that is steadily gaining ground in Third World countries?that the world press should be tightly controlled?SWAPO leaders inside Namibia privately expressed a belief that the presence of foreign reporters gave them some protection during the campaign, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAMIBIA: Desert Mirage | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

Klemesrud aside for a moment, some credit is due to Esquire for a cover and cover story which has the potential to stir up the much-bedraggled women's movement. It's not so much the picture of Patti Hensen, hands on hips and bust wrapped in tight purple satin ("The next poster queen"), that might startle serious readers of the traditionally male-oriented magazine. Rather it is the stupidly stated fact this is "The year of the Lusty Woman--It's all right to be a sex object again...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Recycling a Bad Idea | 12/13/1978 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Esquire's decision to exploit the year of the lusty woman ventures further than the cover. For anyone who wants to look deeper, this past week features three centerfold babes who are billed as the strongest competitors in Esquire's search to find the "Next Poster Queen." "Who will she be?" Who cares? "You, America, be the judge...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Recycling a Bad Idea | 12/13/1978 | See Source »

...only two choices: to kill the shows one by one or en masse. Freddie chose the latter, and off will go Lifeline, Sword of Justice, Dick Clark's Live Wednesday, Eddie Capra Mysteries, Grandpa Goes to Washington, Who's Watching the Kids? and David Cassidy-Man Under Cover. An old show, Project U.F.O. will also be dropped. Two programs, W.E.B. and Waverly Wonders had earlier been dispatched to Silverman Hill, which is already crowded with the shows Freddie killed when he was at CBS and later at ABC. Quipped Johnny Carson: "NBC now stands for Nine Bombs Canceled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Slaughter on Sixth Avenue | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

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