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...Wednesday, when Vance phoned to report that the Middle East peace talks had hit serious snags, Carter told him in cryptic language?even though he was using a scrambler phone???that the agreement with Peking was almost set. The President referred to it as "the matter that only five of us are involved in." After several more exchanges of cables with Peking, Brzezinski informed Carter at about 1 p.m. Thursday that work on the communique was finished. The President smiled and said, "Good deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carter Stuns the World | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...same time mistakenly pushing the "record" button on the machine ?and thereby erasing perhaps five minutes (but not 18) of the taped conversation. Asked in Perry Mason-style by Jill Wine Volner, an Assistant Special Prosecutor, to re-enact this, Miss Woods reached for the imaginary phone???and lifted her left foot. Sirica ordered all the tapes to be examined by a panel of technical experts for "any evidence of tampering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN OF THE YEAR: Judge John J. Sirica: Standing Firm for the Primacy of Law | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

...wearing, as a friend described it at the time, a checked wool shirt and "Genghis Khan beard." His working habits have not changed: Salinger takes a packed lunch to his cement-block cell, and works from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. He can be reached there by phone???but. says a relative, "the house had damn well better be burning down." When he is not working, Salinger watches TV as avidly as any Fat Lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: SONNY | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

WHISPERING WIRES?The last theatrical shocker to stay into the warm weather. If you have ever thought of murdering your enemies via tele-phone???see this. Arterio-sclerotics should keep away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Jun. 11, 1923 | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

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