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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doorknob. He waited again, his chest heaving. He tried to control his breathing. From inside his plaid polyester sport jacket he drew a Mickey Mouse penlight--a gift from the gang in the Company after a memorable visit to Disneyland in 1971. He struggled with the door knob lock, employing his special tools fashioned from stolen forks. It was a motel-style lock, easily picked. He had once owned a key to the door, but Liddy didn't trust keys. Keys were hard to swallow if you got caught...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Keep the Lid On | 10/19/1979 | See Source »

...Someone probably had a key," Michael S. Stern '81, another member of the suite, said yesterday, "There was no forcing of the door." A locksmith changed the lock to the K-entry suite shortly after the incident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vandalism at Eliot | 10/17/1979 | See Source »

...festive as Disney World in a hail storm; the characters are so familiar you can turn down the volume and speak their lines yourself. In addition to the two romantic leads (Larry Breeding and Stephanie Faracy), the kids include one fat social retard, one bookish wimp and one wealthy, lock-jawed Wasp. For added measure the writers have stirred in a cook who re-enacts John Belushi's samurai routine and a maitre d' who resembles Danny De Vito's dispatcher from Taxi. Everyone yells a lot, usually about food and sex. Adults who sample this show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1979-80 Season: II | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...stops along the river, including some obscure hamlets and locks, Carter leaped ashore to shake hands and kiss babies; in the first 200 miles alone, he caused the Delta Queen to make nine unscheduled stops so that he could press more flesh. "Hi, I love you," he said over and over. Nobody who saw Carter's scratched and swollen hands or the lines of fatigue etching his face in the dawn at places like rain-drenched Lynxville Lock, Wis., could doubt that he was working at least as hard on this vacation as at the White House. But Carter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cruisin' Down the River | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

Carter unbent enough to join reporters, including TIME Correspondent Johanna McGeary, on the bow deck one evening for an unaccustomed hour of chitchat. He gave a peculiarly detailed recital of the horsepower ratings of tugboats passing through Lock 26 on the Mississippi. He also offered some personal glimpses. He reads literary potboilers, he said. When? "I read in the bathroom." He disclosed that when in Washington he keeps a diary: "It's amazing how detailed mine is." When a reporter recalled that Mark Twain had called Congress the only "distinctly native criminal class," Carter joked that the remark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cruisin' Down the River | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

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