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WATERGATE LEAK. In the 19th century U.S. Supreme Court Justices talked openly about impending decisions, but in recent years the court has shrouded its decision-making process with an almost impenetrable secrecy. The purpose, its members say, is to encourage a frank and free interchange of ideas. Even staff members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Legal Briefs | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

Nixon is at his best in the shows that cover the one area in which his presidency is most likely to leave a positive mark on history: foreign affairs. Although it took him four years to disengage from the disastrous war in Viet Nam (14,750 Americans and 107,500...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: NIXON TALKS | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

Seated at his most formal White House desk, Carter was serious and effective Monday night in delineating the dimensions of the impending energy shortage. Although his words were, as always, delivered in soft Southern tones, they were blunt and stark. If the world's use of oil continues at present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE ENERGY WAR | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

Worthy's astute political prophesizing didn't stop there. In the fall of 1960 he filed an exclusive dispatch from Havana to his newspaper, Baltimore's Afro American. Worthy revealed that the Cuban government had knowledge of an impending invasion of their country that was being formulated in Florida and...

Author: By Joanthan J. Ledecky, | Title: A Man Worth Heeding | 4/28/1977 | See Source »

The first and third singles matches were halted because of impending gloom. Sally Roberts and Denise Thal played their doubles matches before their solo contests and ended up ahead in only one of the three encounters.

Author: By Laura E. Shanberg, | Title: 'Cliffe Tennis Team Establishes Winning Form, Trounces Smith | 4/22/1977 | See Source »

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