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...bribery and conspiracy indictment of a Fresno city councilman who was involved in city sewage- and garbage-collection contracts. The case became somewhat complicated when Superior Court Judge Denver C. Peckinpah (brother of "blood and guts" movie director Sam Peckinpah) discovered that one of the Bee newsmen had a passkey that gave him unlimited access to all offices in the courthouse (though a reporter from the Oakland Tribune also carried a similar key). Peckinpah called a hearing at which the newsmen refused to say how they had got hold of the grand jury transcripts. All four invoked the California shield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Denting the Shield | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widow Killed Near Radcliffe Dorm; Police Cite Britton Case Similarities | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...employer told police he was worried when Mrs. Bean did not report to work on Wednesday. He came to her apartment a half-block from Comstock Hall at 10:15 yesterday morning. He and the janitor entered the third-floor apartment with a passkey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widow Killed Near Radcliffe Dorm; Police Cite Britton Case Similarities | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...white, from open velours shirt to tight jeans and stocking feet. In his left hand, he sometimes totes white ankle boots, in the right a snifter of Chivas Regal Scotch. With his tousled hair and sly brown eyes, he has the smirk of a beach bum who owns the passkey to every cabana on the island. Matrons rush onstage to buss him; others in the S.R.O. house palpitate like palm fronds. Don Ho, 37, is the big noise from Waikiki these days-the biggest in the history of Hawaiian show business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainers: Trader Ho | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

...Laws degree (his 32nd honorary degree), it was civil rights. Before the Navy League in Manchester, N.H., it was Viet Nam. The U.S. will stop bombing North Viet Nam, he said, if Hanoi quits sending troops south. But it is "the men in Hanoi," he added, "who hold the passkey to peace." At Battery Park in Burlington, Vt, with the crystal waters of Lake Champlain for a backdrop, his subject was conservation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: On The Trail | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

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