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Word: picks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Disneyland" and "the Puzzle Palace," the NSA labors in extraordinary anonymity to monitor communications throughout the world and then decipher the coded messages. In that task it is reputed to employ everything from the world's largest bank of computers to blind people whose acute hearing can pick up signals on tapes that sighted people might miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTELLIGENCE: NSA: Inside the Puzzle Palace | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

...Saturday mornings with a junior high school friend and bop into Harvard. The Square was a lot cooler then, more wierd people to stare at, more radical literature to pick up etc.-- maybe it's just that everything's a lot cooler in the eighth grade. After making the rounds we'd head down Boylston St. to Carey Cage. By 11 a.m. there would be about 40 kids gathered around waiting for the guy to come out and dole out the concession jobs. (It was a lot like the dockside scene from On the Waterfront.) There was a real hierarchy...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Rags to Riches | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

Depending upon how the votes are redistributed over the weekend under the city's complex system of proportional voting, there is an outside chance that the liberals could drop down to three seats or pick up a fifth...

Author: By Mark J. Penn, | Title: The Liberal Onslaught Fizzles | 11/8/1975 | See Source »

...took a Raleigh, N.C., jury 78 minutes last summer to agree that the state had not proved that convicted Burglar Joan Little had murdered her guard with an ice pick during a jailbreak. Was the case as weak as that swift verdict implied? Not at all, claims, of all people, Little's attorney, Jerry Paul. Paul told the New York Times last week that though he thinks Little is innocent, the acquittal proved less about justice than about the ineptness of the prosecution and the power of $325,000, which the defense spent on the case. The judge contends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Little Charade? | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

Hard Times is the best script Bronson has enjoyed since he became box office. His character is called Chaney, a drifter and street fighter of mysterious origins and flexible future. He rides into New Orleans on a boxcar and soon afterward picks up a fight and a manager. Speed (played with appropriate flash by James Coburn) is a small-time gambler who spots a sure shot at the big dollar. With a hophead physician (Strother Martin) as medical consultant, Chaney and Speed scuffle around trying to pick a few more fights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Down and Out | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

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