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Security is strict, and FBI agents are constantly in attendance, though their duties frequently extend beyond what J. Edgar Hoover presumably has in mind. Recently, on a maid's day off, Agent Frank Illig helped out by serving Marty her breakfast in bed, and in a picture spread in LIFE this fall, another FBI agent was seen ironing one of Martha's evening dresses and patiently hooking her up in back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Martha Mitchell's View From The Top | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

...trunk was the blood-covered body of Pierre Laporte, 49, Quebec's Labor Minister. He had been shot in the head. Still missing was James Cross, 49, British Trade Commissioner in Montreal. It was Cross who was first kidnaped two weeks ago when his maid unwittingly let two terrorists into his home, mistaking them for deliverymen. For his release, the terrorists demanded $500,000 in gold bullion, the freeing of 23 F.L.Q. members from prison, and safe passage for them to Cuba or Algeria. When the government firmly refused to meet the terrorists' terms, the F.L.Q. responded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Canada: This Very Sorry Moment' | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

...doorbell at the fashionable Montreal home of James R. ("Jasper") Cross, who directs the British trade office in Quebec. "A present for Mr. Cross," said one of the men, displaying a gaily wrapped package. Since her employer had celebrated his 49th birthday only six days earlier, the Portuguese maid unchained the door. With that, one of the men whipped out a revolver and the other pulled an M-1 rifle out of the package...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Lives in the Balance | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

...thoughts to a panel of scribes, provides some "Notes for World Prosperity." Sample: "Peoples from every corner of the earth must get together to launch an Apollo of the spirit." Other contributors include Anne Smol, 8, of London, who offers 108 words on how she enjoyed being a brides maid at her auntie's wedding. Priced at 50? a copy in the U.S., the international PHP needs a circulation of 250,000 to break even Its first press run is only 80,000; obvi ously, Matsushita is prepared to lose money initially. He can afford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Quotations from Chairman Matsushita | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

...opening interchange between Mr. and Mrs. Martin should, independently, justify even the most traditional revival of this play. What follows these two paradigms of verbal obfuscation is a dreary series of games which the Smiths play with their think-alike symbolic coordinates, the Martins. The caperings of Mary, the maid, seemed to contribute nothing to the action, but Victoria Fraser's quickness in that part relieved an artistic sore in the play which was repeatedly aggravated by Jim Lynch's performance as the visiting Fire Chief. He was lumbering and clumsy but so was the entire conclusion of the play...

Author: By James M. Lewis, | Title: The Theatregoer Jack, or The Submission/The Bald Soprano at the Old West Church until Oct. 31 | 10/7/1970 | See Source »

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