Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brooklyn-bred Richard Lee Strout has been rising to that task at least since the early 1920s, when, not long out of Harvard, he parked his Model T on the ellipse behind the White House and joined the local Monitor crew. He trod the White House beat while Warren G. Harding entertained Nan Britton in a coat closet, and when tight-lipped Calvin Coolidge gravely turned over a ceremonial spade of earth one Arbor Day and, asked to say a few words, pronounced: "That's a fine fishworm." He called Franklin D. Roosevelt "the greatest President of my time...
...will introduce their own versions of the magazine format, which is basically an hour-long collection of documentary-type reports. In addition, Producer David Susskind is developing a personality-profile TV show for CBS based on PEOPLE magazine, and stations across the nation are pasting together local variations of the magazine genre. At this rate television may soon offer more "magazines" than the corner newsstand...
...individually and without the authority or consent" of the intelligence unit when he planted the LEAA-funded device on Sabo. Morgan did not suffer: he quickly landed a job as investigator for Friedman's law firm and was subsequently appointed probation officer, another LEAA-created job. dispensed by local judges...
...internecine warfare, the only possible winners are local criminals, including the shadowy Dixie Mafia. Sheriff Sabo, for his part, admits to a mild case of paranoia. "I spend more time looking over my shoulder than I do peering in front of me," he says softly. "Maybe 1 should apply for an LEAA grant to buy a device that detects the devices they're buying with I.EAA grants...
...bearded former music teacher who joined the Iowa State faculty twelve years ago, likes to bicycle to class, and eats health food at his desk for lunch. In 1970 he began dabbling in parapsychology and attended lectures and seminars on the subject. Soon he was bringing local psychics to his classes and trading ghostly tales with them. By 1975 he had become so immersed in the otherworldly that he was elected president of the newly formed Iowa Federation of Astrologers. Finally, he got permission from a faculty committee to teach his bizarre course. As Weltha explained to TIME Correspondent Anne...