Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gargan returned to the Dike Bridge "to make certain that Gargan would be totally familiar with the circumstances surrounding 'his' unfortunate accident." But "in the cold light of dawn," say Pearson and Anderson, the Senator "decided to face the consequences himself." Whatever its implausibilities, the story would explain why Kennedy might have wished to establish an alibi by showing himself at the motel at 2:25. Both Gargan and Kennedy immediately said that the story is false. Another rumor had it that Gargan was indeed driving the car, but everyone who has known the Kennedys agreed that...
Like any man beginning a new life, Author Anatoly Kuznetsov last week sought to explain why he ended the old one. Denouncing his earlier published works as hopelessly corrupted by the Soviet system, he even took a new name: A. Anatol. TIME here presents, in documents made available to its editors, Kuznetsov's explanation of why he fled to the West and three letters that he sent to the Soviet Union after his defection...
...Hanoi and the Communist negotiators at the Paris peace talks have offered no hint that the lull has any political significance. Given the Communist reticence, U.S. experts in Washington and Saigon advance three theories to explain the lull...
...become president of the six mutual funds managed by Investors Diversified Services, the biggest company in the fund business. Budge eventually declined the $80,000-a-year bid, but only after pondering over it for more than two months. A Senate banking subcommittee has called on him to explain how he could justify negotiating for a job in an industry that the SEC regulates...
...Athens in Antarctica might be easier to explain than the riddling ruins on Easter Island. More than 2,000 miles from the coast of Chile, still farther from the reefs of Tahiti, Easter is the world's most isolated islet: a tiny (45.5 sq. mi.) blob of wind-scraped lava jutting from the gray Pacific like a roost for passing frigate birds. Yet on its stony surface, dozens of enormous statues, known in local dialect as modi, stand and stare. Some of them rear up to a height of 40 feet; many of them wear a subtle expression that...