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...Yellow Pages. Eventually, Schrag reports, "we had an impressive array of electronic gadgetry," including a tiny microphone that hooked onto a bra strap. "One hazard of a very young law-enforcement staff," observed Schrag wryly, was that the first time the device was to be used "our investigator forgot to wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: A Pig Is Born | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...neither postal authorities nor Penn Central's computers could figure out where it had gone. Last week, after 25 months, the railroad car turned up on a siding in Perryville, Md. Because of mechanical trouble, the car had been shunted off to be repaired or junked. Someone forgot about the mail, which was finally sent on its way marked "Delayed due to circumstances beyond the control of the U.S. Postal Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Missing Mail Car | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

...TROUBLE IS, once you get down into the stream you begin to read around and you realize how little you know. The problem becomes how to keep it from becoming just an historical novel. Once, I thought if I forgot a lot, then I could really begin it. But I've talked enough about it, it's been in my mind long enough, that I must really do it in a carefree and rapid way and get it out of my system...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Updike Redux | 3/22/1972 | See Source »

...from Brooks, and the oxford-gray basket-weave polyester-worsted from Press. Then six ties, use your own judgment, keeping the suit in mind . . ." And so it goes. After taking down a veritable mail-order catalogue, the wife also throws in underwear, handkerchiefs and a belt -items her peacock forgot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Irate Accent | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...bandits. But his enthusiastic characterization of the leaders as Reel Robin Hoods seemed somewhat overdrawn. Later, during Joseph McCarthy's heyday, Snow was castigated as a Red propagandist. Ironically, he was also the target of gossip linking him to the Central Intelligence Agency. Whatever the charges, Snow never forgot that he was an American. He made no move to renounce citizenship, as did some admirers of Mao, and his 20-year-old daughter Sian (the name means "Western Peace" in Mandarin) is a student at Antioch College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mao's Columbus | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

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