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Cloaked in Mystery. Last week Onassis was once more the focus of international speculation. Amid reports that he was gravely ill-perhaps even near death-he was flown from Athens to Paris aboard an Olympic Airways Learjet specially outfitted with medical equipment. After resting for a night at his Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The Ailing King | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

Get Cracking. What the Democrats need above all is time, and Ford is reluctant to give it to them. Distracted by their sweeping reorganization at the opening of the 94th Congress, they have not been able to produce a coherent energy program of their own. Nor are future prospects very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Seeking to Head Off a Policy Collision | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

The duo has indeed gone underground. Requests for interviews are being declined, and Woodward said recently: "We've dropped out." Woodward, 31, and Bernstein, 30, have had their troubles coping with sudden fame. As a friend explained their new reticence: "People were always asking them for big public-policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Woodstein's Retreat | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

Back home, his first stage play was a resounding success in 1958. Five Finger Exercise was a taut rearrangement of that staple of British drama, the middle-class family turned into a pack of cannibals. His next work, the hit comedy double bill The Private Ear and The Public Eye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Showman Shaffer | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

IT IS THE fantasy of every Sherlockian that Sherlock Holmes, with Dr. John H. Watson, did in fact pursue justice among the befogged and criminalled London streets of the late 19th century, and that Dr. A. Conan Doyle was merely the alter ego Watson annexed so as to fictionalize his...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: The Adventure of the Addled Amanuensis | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

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