Word: feb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shootout in Los Angeles had barely cooled last week when law authorities declared that they finally had the answers to two of the most persistent questions about the Patty Hearst saga. They were convinced that the newspaper heiress had really been kidnaped by the Symbionese Liberation Army on Feb. 4 rather than taken part in an elaborate ruse to join old friends. But they were also persuaded that Patty had since joined the cause of the shattered S.L.A. and become a terrorist herself...
Garrett, a Chicago securities lawyer who served on the SEC staff in the 1950s, quickly supported the elevation of Veteran Staffer Irving M. Pollack to a seat on the five-member commission (TIME, Feb. 11), a move that boosted morale by demonstrating respect for professionalism. Enforcement activities have picked up, as the recent filing of long-awaited fraud suits in the Penn Central case shows...
...notations of "unintelligible" or "inaudible." They are not, however, randomly distributed. An extraordinary number occur at crucial points in conversations; a remarkable total, perhaps two-thirds, are gaps in the President's conversation. In a meeting with then White House Counsel John Dean III in the Oval Office on Feb. 28, 1973, for example, the President (P) is discussing how to handle the newly established Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities?the Watergate committee...
...watch television. An adjunct to the myth is that Nixon gets the news better and straighter from the 20-to 50-page press summary delivered to him before 8 a.m. each day by White House Special Consultant Patrick Buchanan. The transcripts should thoroughly dispel the myth. In his Feb. 28 meeting with Dean, the President discusses in impressive detail what the newspapers are saying about the woes of Campaign Finance Chairman Maurice Stans...
...Wyoming's Gale McGee, chairman of the Senate Post Office Committee, and co-sponsored by 22 other Senators including Massachusetts' Edward M. Kennedy and Arizona's Barry Goldwater, the measure would give newspapers and magazines an extra three years to absorb soaring second-class rates (TIME, Feb. 25). Under the present Postal Service schedule of phased increases, periodicals collectively will have to pay at least 218% more to use the mails in 1976 than they did in 1971. (Under increases already in force they are paying 80% more.) The bill passed by the Senate would extend that...