Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article on legitimized gambling [Dec. 6] and specifically state lotteries: the inefficiency of revenue collection is horrendous and the odds for winning are unconscionable. But the worst thing is that this is regressive taxation in its most vicious form...
...Publetter [Dec. 6] writer is a breakfast-eating, Brooks Brothers type. If your man had misspent his youth to better effect he would know that a fourflusher is not a cheater, as the Pub letter alleges, but a poor old bluffer trying to do his best in a stud game with four cards of one suit facing up (that's a four-flush) and nothing but dogmeat in the hole (what he needs for a legitimate flush is five cards of one suit...
Tutor's Role. For much of the past three years, Brzezinski has served as director of the Trilateral Commission, which seeks to further economic and political collaboration among North America, Western Europe and Japan (TIME, Dec. 20). He met Carter at a commission conference in 1973 and was one of the few who early took the peanut farmer's presidential aspirations seriously. Assuming a tutor's role, he began sending articles on foreign policy to Carter. Later he was head of the election campaign's 28-man task force on defense and foreign affairs...
...weeks ago TIME printed an article about Glomar based partly on a talk with a former Glomar crew member named Joe Rodriguez (TIME, Dec. 6). As the first of Glomar's some 200 crewmen to speak, Rodriguez provided previously unknown touches about shipboard life (filet mignon was standard fare; Deep Throat was the favorite flick). Rodriguez's most significant hint, however, was that Glomar retrieved the entire Soviet sub. TIME checked out Rodriguez's suggestion with a number of Pentagon experts, who appeared to confirm it. They conceded that significant. and so far undisclosed portions...
...Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, at the northern edge of Mexico City, many of the Roman Catholic pilgrims drop to their knees to shuffle painfully forward as they pray for forgiveness. On any day there are crowds at this most venerated shrine in the Americas, but on Dec. 12, the Day of Guadalupe, the crowds turn into a tidal wave of humanity. This week for the first time the day is being celebrated in a huge new basilica, a structure of such size and strident modernity that it raised some fears among the faithful that the Virgin might forsake...