Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days earlier. The task of the commission, which was headed by Lord Pearce, a retired appellate judge, was to assess whether the Rhodesian people, both black and white, would accept or reject the settlement that had been proposed by Smith and British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home (TIME, Dec. 6). In theory at least, the settlement would lead to a very gradual increase in black political power...
...last fall. Hughes' physical condition had been deteriorating steadily over the months, Irving said. At those meetings, Hughes lay in bed, wheezing heavily and frequently waving Irving out of the room. Had Hughes read the manuscript? The weak reply: "As much as I could." That was the morning of Dec. 7, the day that McGraw-Hill announced the book in New York. Hughes signed the typed, finished version of a preface to the book. When Irving sought another meeting four days later, Hughes' intermediary was "in a flap" and said he could not arrange it. Irving never saw Hughes again...
Irving's version of how the book was assembled was almost instantly challenged. The McGraw-Hill and LIFE announcement of the book brought a denial of its authenticity from Hughes Tool Co. representatives in California. On Dec. 14, the company's general counsel, Chester Davis, appeared in Time Inc.'s New York offices and put through a telephone call to a man purporting to be Hughes. The man spoke with Frank McCulloch, New York bureau chief for the Time-Life News Service. McCulloch, the last reporter to interview Hughes face-to-face-in 1958-believes that it was Hughes...
Untold thousands of U.S. radios were tuned in during the small hours of the morning of Dec. 11, 1936, to hear a relay of the strained voice of handsome King Edward VIII of England announce that he was abdicating his throne because he could not go on "without the help and support of the woman I love." Soon untold millions of U.S. TV sets will be tuned to ABC's version of the royal romance -called, inevitably, For the Woman I Love. Richard Chamberlain and Faye Dunaway make creditable lookalikes for Edward of England and Wallis Simpson of Baltimore...
...thought I would get out of town relatively quietly. Unfortunately you decided to publish Jim Krauss's missive on the Dead (Dec. 15). Couldn't you have held it until Friday, when most everyone was home and wouldn't have had to face Krauss's edifying remarks? Wasn't there any news at all? Not even a story on Tricia...