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The skilled anchor man does not palaver, as time-filling radio broadcasters used to, but rarely does he say anything memorable either. His talent is to roll out endless spools of language that inform but do not rile. It is a strange, self-limiting role for garrulous, confident men. Opinionated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: You Have to Be Neutral to Ask the Questions | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

"The awesome loneliness of the presidency," a time-honored cliche of the White House press corps, has fallen into disuse because it ill-suits Ford's style and personality. Several weeks ago, after a delegate-wooing expedition to Mississippi, he headed back to Washington on Air Force One. His...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: FORD: CONCILIATORY AND CONFIDENT | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

Retired Air Force Captain Ray Brennan, 61, a tall, graying man who loved to collect seashells, had been having heart trouble for some years. But he was the bookkeeper of American Legion Post #42 in Towanda, Pa., and, as his sister Maize Travis said, "All he lived for was these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILADELPHIA KILLER | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

The populist community of the air -using many CB sets with illegally high power output-has overflowed the banks of its 23 federally assigned channels, filling the air with errant electromagnetic waves. Complaints from TV, radio and even stereo users are flooding Federal Communications Commission offices across the land. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Electronic Disease | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

One person that Scotland Yard would very much like to talk to about the robbery is Stephen Patrick Raymond, 30, a dapper, self-confident redhead who had worked for several months as a shipping clerk, filling in customs and transit forms, at Purolator's London office-until he failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Great Plane Robbery | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

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