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Immediate exhumation carries certain risks, however. As McCutchen's Ike story shows, it is harder to do Eisenhower, say, than Abraham Lincoln. The film is supposedly taken from Kay Summersby's kiss-and-tell book about her wartime romance with the general, but there will be no kiss and very little tell in ABC'S version. "I've got to think about a very lovely woman who is the widow of the ex-President," McCutchen explains. "We'll leave it to the people who watch the show to make up their own minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Flood of Film Biography | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...make transistors and chips, scientists "dope" a semiconducting material ike silicon with impurities, creating regions that have either an excess or a deiciency of electrons-and thus are negatively (n zones) or positively (p zones) charged. If two n zones, say, are separated by a p zone, they act like an electronic switch, or transistor; a small voltage in the p zone controls fluctuations in the current flowing between the n zones. But every time an excess electron is released in the n zone to join the current flow, it leaves behind a positively charged spot. Because opposite charges attract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Breaking A Barrier | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

Dick Strout, 80, at President's left. Covered Calvin Coolidge. Still reporting. Charley Bartlett across table. Introduced Jack Kennedy to Jackie Bouvier. J.F. terHorst off to left, Once Jerry Ford's press secretary, Ike's favorite, Roscoe Drummond, on duty. Des Moines, Los Angeles, Baltimore ready to ask questions. President does not eat. Already been up several hours. He sips water. Puffy eyes. Still tired from Camp David. Delicious fatigue. New spirit in room. Respect from press. Carter easier. Abe Lincoln looking benignly down from the wall, chin in hand, elbow on knee. Carter with chin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Savoring a Mellow Moment | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...Muslim sect. Among those arrested were three former Cabinet ministers (agriculture, trade and health), and Hojabr Yadzani, who is one of Iran's richest businessmen. A thousand other businessmen were advised that they would not be allowed to leave the country. Said an Iranian banker: "It looks ike the crash of the crooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Second Thoughts--and Chances | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...evening. Before they went to work they took a boring of the old court, fearing that they would have to start with a new foundation. But what they found was three or four other surfaces laid down like geologic strata-late Cal Coolidge, early Franklin Roosevelt, middle Ike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Warblers, Lemonade and Surf | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

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