Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Select Committee on Assassinations was established last fall by the House of Representatives to make a fresh study of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Despite a seemingly endless series of investigations, rumors, dark suspicions and public doubts persist about who actually shot Kennedy and King. Just last month a Gallup poll showed that 80% of the American people believe that both assassinations were conspiracies; some think the Mafia, the CIA, Cubans or other Communists killed Kennedy. Thus when retired Virginia Congressman Thomas Downing proposed that the assassinations be examined yet again, the House approved...
...endless ridicule of Madame Mao's "criminality" and "stupidity" has been accompanied by press and radio reports in China's provinces accusing Chiang Ch'ing's supporters of widespread sabotage and inciting to riot. If only a fraction of these charges are true, there may be far greater chaos in China than most analysts have suspected. One broadcast from Shansi declared that followers of the Gang of Four broke into a meeting of the provincial Communist Party secretariat last summer and kidnaped top local leaders. Another broadcast reported that the gang "was the main root causing...
...film by Producer Franco Rossellini. Vidal agreed to write a screenplay, and he introduced Rossellini to Guccione, who, with a logic Descartes would have envied, realized that where there are mad Roman Emperors there must also be orgies-along with big grosses at the box office and an endless supply of nude picture spreads for Penthouse...
...serendipity, they also result from initiative and melting into Carter's inner circle. National Political Correspondent Robert Ajemian has just spent a week traveling with Carter's chief political adviser, Hamilton Jordan, as he masterminded the preparation of background material and interviews for his boss. "He makes endless calls-to the low and the mighty," says Ajemian. "But any call from Jordan these days is a call from the bull's-eye of power." What Ajemian learned in the bull's-eye-as well as the latest gleanings of other TIME transition watchers-appears in this...
Freshman year is known to many as a time of endless groping and disillusionment, a time of searching for direction and some sense of what the future might bring...