Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Viet Nam-era bombings. A New York City-based FBI unit called Squad 47 broke into the homes of innocent relatives and friends of the fugitive radicals seeking clues to their whereabouts. Sometimes dressed as telephone repairmen, they would pick locks or buy keys from landlords and, once inside, photograph diaries, letters and other documents. The burglaries would be cleared in advance with Miller, who got approval from Felt. Though Squad 47 conducted at least 20 such "black-bag jobs," the sleuthing did not turn up any Weather Underground people, although some have voluntarily surfaced in the past months...
...West Wing office of Richard Nixon's White House there was an audacious wall decoration: a large photograph of a broadly smiling Ronald Reagan, who had challenged Nixon for the 1968 G.O.P. nomination. Moreover, the occupant of the office, Nixon's director of the Office of Management and Budget, often proudly pointed to both Reagan's grin and the handwritten inscription under it: "The smile is for real, thanks to you. In friendship and warm regards, Ron." Said the OMB boss to one visitor: "Now, there is a man who really knows how to cut budgets...
...professor on the committee handed her a photograph and asked if the face was hers. It was: she stood by a crowd of students holding a sit-in sponsored by the Revolutionary Youth Movement, a political group that opposed her own. She says she had walked by to observe the sit-in, and played no part...
Never have I seen so breathtaking a photograph as the one of Saturn and its rings that appeared with your story [Nov. 24]. For a few exciting seconds, I felt as if I were sitting astride Voyager 1 and that I could almost reach out and touch the rings...
Four days and 3.3 million miles after its closest encounter with Saturn last month, the Voyager 1 spacecraft cast a last backward glance and transmitted this stunning portrait of the ringed giant. The photograph shows a crescent Saturn casting a shadow on its own rings, from the perspective a traveler might get by approaching from the stars, rather than from the interior reaches of the solar system. Re-created bit by electronic bit in computers at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and released last week, the shot is so detailed that patches of the planet can be glimpsed through...