Word: feb
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...spite of myself. I felt great sympathy for the "Con Man of the Year" [Feb. 21] when I read your report that he faces a jail sentence for fraud and perjury. Not since the heyday of P.T. Barnum has one man entertained the American public so long and so well...
...Regarding Joseph Kane's distorted article "Grumpy Mood of Florida Voters" [Feb. 14], let it be known that the Daytona Beach resort area boasts 120,000 permanent residents and hosts 3,000,000 tourists annually who reside and visit here by choice not just chance. With so many "winners" enjoying the good life, it's bewildering that Mr. Kane considers Daytona Beach a haven for the "losers of life." He should be so lucky...
Ulster had its Bloody Sunday -Jan. 30 of this year, when 13 Catholics were killed by British paratroopers in Londonderry's Bogside (TIME, Feb. 14). Last week, at the British army's 16th Parachute Brigade headquarters in Aldershot, 40 miles south of London, an event occurred that could go down in history as Bloody Tuesday. Just before lunchtime, a Ford Cortina containing 280 Ibs. of gelignite exploded beside the unguarded officers' mess. The blast tore through the concrete-slab building, injuring 19 and killing seven-five women, a civilian gardener and a Catholic chaplain who had been...
Britain began lighting up again last week. The country's striking coal miners (TIME, Feb. 28) overwhelmingly accepted the government's offer of a 21% pay hike and started returning to the pits. Despite the widespread public relief that the power crisis was over, darker days ahead for Prime Minister Edward Heath are predicted by Correspondent Honor Balfour, who has covered the British scene, including Parliament, for TIME since 1944. Her assessment...
Senator William Proxmire, who turned up with two black eyes a couple of weeks ago (TIME, Feb. 21), walked into the hearings of his Joint Economic Committee with his head swathed in bandages. The Proxmire shiners-diagnosed by observers as the effects of a debagging operation-were never officially explained, but the head wounds were accompanied by a press release. Text: "On Tuesday night, February 22, I began treatment for hair transplants. The treatments will take a couple of months. The change in appearance of my bald head will be gradual, it will be a year and a half...