Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With that chilling calculation, spelled out in a note left in U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick's Cadillac in Rio, a group of Brazilian terrorists last week launched a fantastic-and successful-caper worthy of Mission: Impossible. Expanding on a terror technique already familiar in Latin America, leftists kidnaped the U.S. diplomat, blackmailed South America's most powerful government, sprang a randy group of political prisoners from jail and got them to sanctuary in another country-on a Brazilian military plane. The abductors' note was signed by two bands-the National Liberation Action Group, a Brazilian anti...
...familiar surname may have helped to make her shoes and handbags all the rage in Rome. In the same circular way, it may help sell records. The movie? Well, Maria is also Sophia Loren's kid sister, and Italian, French and American producers have not been slow to note the family resemblance...
...drawing board, carefully cutting out three or four extra rectangular holes with a razor blade, and returning the card to sender. Matusow claims to have altered a magazine subscription card in that manner. As a result, he received 23 copies of the magazine each week and a note thanking him for using the publication in his current-events class...
...prime rule in Matusow's anticomputer campaign is to "always let the enemies know that you are at war with them." He suggests that recipients of a computerized bill destroy the returnable portion, then mail back a check together with a note explaining what they have done and why. When paying utility bills, Matusow advises doing it promptly-but overpaying or underpaying by a penny or two. The effect, he says, is to send an unsophisticated computer into a state of hysteria...
...murmured "thank you," he sang with the new voice and manner first heard on his most recent LP, Nashville Skyline (TIME, April 11). It is far less nasal and rasping than before, far less a mixture of drone and downward slur. The tone is softer, rounder; one note leads gracefully to the next, and the result is just as satisfying in its own way. Unexpectedly bending and holding notes like a crooner, Dylan gave a lyric, wistful quality to the traditional Irish ballad, Wild Mountain Thyme. He introduced no new songs, but older ones like...