Word: heard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...several bit players in the cinema verite unfolding at this particular American crossroads. The set: a cement driveway, four pumps (ethyl, regular and lead-free), two tiled bathrooms, two mechanics' bays and a battery of U-Haul trailers for rent. Most of the cast had never heard of Evanston, much less the A & A, until they found themselves waylaid outside town by a steaming radiator, broken drive shaft, clogged fuel pump or flat tire, and brought here. Usually they are towed in by Jon Lunsford, 40, soft-spoken Mormon and "the Boss," or by his ace mechanic, Cliff Cole...
...committee also heard last week from an assassination buff, Advertising Man Jack White of Fort Worth, who has fed conspiracy theories for a decade by insisting that two famous snapshots of Oswald holding his rifle were fakes. Marina has said all along-and reiterated to the committee-that she had taken the pictures. Moreover, a panel of experts convincingly refuted White. The committee even turned up other prints of Oswald with the weapon, including one that he had signed...
There will undoubtedly be some people who will always believe a fourth shot was fired. But at the halfway point of the monthlong hearings on the Kennedy assassination, the overwhelming weight of evidence heard by the committee points to the same conclusion reached by the Warren Commission: Oswald, acting alone, killed Kennedy...
...days, Time's guests heard from and fired questions at a long list of panelists and speakers. They included Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, Federal Reserve Board Chairman G. William Miller, White House Economics Adviser Charles Schultze, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long, Senator Edward Kennedy, House Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman, and Conable. What emerged, among other things, was a surprisingly broad consensus that tax policy, both as a mirror of the nation's goals and as a tool to help achieve them, is moving-and must continue to move-in a new direction...
Grayson disputes the conventional wisdom that productivity has been hurt by social change. The surge of women, nonwhites and the young into the job market has not had much impact, in his view. C. Jackson Grayson Jr. "I've heard all the rhetoric about we-don't-want-to-work-hard-any-more, and I don't believe it. The work ethic has not been lost. What has happened is that autocratic, bureaucratic organizations in business and public service have suppressed the desires and ability of the individual to feel that he or she is contributing. People...