Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...king or, even more basically, how a boy grows up. By the time Shakespeare's play opens at the Loeb December 11, the skill of director George Hamlin will probably have worked to weld all the wicked plots and counterplots of the smaller schemes of things into the pattern of the larger theme...
...happened, TIME did the first major reporting on the case in a story last May. Two months earlier, Washington Correspondent Philip Taubman had noted a pattern of inconsistencies in Lance's financial situation as it had been revealed during his confirmation hearings. In reporting this week's cover story, Taubman received cooperation from Government sources, the Comptroller's office, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, the Justice Department...
...Lance for so obviously shifting his bank's correspondent business along with his personal loans. Lance has denied that he made the switches in order to get loans for himself which would be illegal. Still, said a Los Angeles bank officer, "no serious banker could look at the pattern of his bank's opening up correspondent accounts and Lance's getting personal loans and believe the sequence was coincidental." Added a New York banker: "The use of compensating balances to buy favors for yourself is a rotten practice but very common"-and one that is frequently employed...
...city's population. From 1970 through 1974, another PILCOP study revealed, cops shot 236 people, killing 81 of them; half of those were unarmed. In researching a series of articles on the police that was published last spring, the Philadelphia Inquirer first discovered a pervasive pattern of beatings and torture by homicide detectives-and then found that cops were equally tough. The Inquirer decided to investigate police lawlessness after one egregious case-that of Robert ("Reds") Wilkinson, a mildly retarded auto mechanic who was beaten into confessing the fire-bomb murder in 1975 of a woman and her four...
...sculpture or a gigantic joke-Pet Rocks on a heroic scale? Folks in Hartford, Conn., have been debating that since just before Labor Day, when several trucks and a large crane deposited 36 boulders, some weighing 19,000 Ibs., in a rough triangular pattern around a downtown park. The arrangement is the creation of Minimalist Sculptor Carl Andre, who was commissioned at a cost of $87,000 by a local foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. But Hartford citizens could not be more angry if they had paid for it themselves. Snapped Mayor George Athanson: "You call that...