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Lyndon Johnson makes some memorable appearances in the book. The former President enlivened one meeting by taking off his clothes, stretching out naked on a table and calling for a masseur, meanwhile firing a stream of questions at Linowitz. Richard Nixon fidgets past, inviting Linowitz to the White House in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Diligence | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Most business systems or private users, of course, cannot be so carefully protected. Researchers at AT&T's Bell Labs are prohibited from running programs that have been acquired over the phone until they have been tested for sabotage. Other companies use call-back boxes that phone would-be users...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Threat from Malicious Software | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

In our age, which has learned to quantify everything, perhaps it might not seem strange that the soul of a killer should be sought in his posthumous neuroanatomy. In an age of scientific miracles, every field of human endeavor looks to science for the silver bullet to pierce the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: In Search of the Silver Bullet | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

When the State Department belatedly learned of the incident 13 hours afterward, it persuaded Soviet officials to let Medvid be interviewed. He was examined and questioned by State Department representatives as well as by the Navy doctor and Air Force psychiatrist, both of whom concluded that he was not under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kicking and Screaming | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

More than anyone might suspect, as it turns out, when Mrs. Lloyd (Gayle Hunnicutt), vacationing in Europe, is abducted, and father and son set out to rescue her. For Walter once led a secret life as a CIA agent, and the kidnaping of his wife is an act of belated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: What Daddy Did in the Cold War TARGET | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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