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...Hungary up until the day of Mr. Graham's arrival and visited with a number of pastors who were being persecuted by the very people responsible for inviting Billy Graham to come. Many of the pastors feared that the West would accept their government's ploy as proof that there was true religious freedom in Hungary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 10, 1977 | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...hopelessness springs eternal on Rhode Island Sound. After three crushing defeats, Australia's loyal underdoggers were busy recalling all the old familiar whiny excuses, among them the "She can only move in light air" ploy. Shamelessly followed this summer by its corollary: "She can only move in heavy air." As the two boats-Australia 44 sec. back-beat up toward the spectator fleet, now placed upwind of the first mark, the word goes round. "Forty-four seconds behind! That's her best first leg ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sloops du Jour off Newport | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...dissolve, Jerry finds himself questioning his own motives and, finally, his orders, the discipline of his "tradecraft." The object of his sudden, intense affection is Drake Ko's beautiful mistress, Lizzie Worthington, an involvement that jeopardizes Westerby's entire mission. The carefully engineered defection of Nelson Ko becomes a ploy within a ploy with apocalyptic result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy Who Came In for the Gold | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...effort by the President's aides. The normally cool Press Secretary Jody Powell blundered atrociously by phoning several newsmen with the sly tip that Senator Percy might have used corporate aircraft owned by Bell & Howell Co. for personal purposes. The Chicago Sun-Times exposed Powell's ploy after finding no truth to the report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Lance Comes Out Swinging | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...regulars have found jobs. On The Betty White Show on CBS, the former Happy Homemaker and Georgia Engel, the bubbleheaded wife of Newscaster Ted Baxter, reappear as TV actress and her bubbleheaded roommate. In We've Got Each Other, CBS tries a tamer version of the role-reversal ploy that flopped in All That Glitters. Here, hubby does the housework while wife trudges off to the photography studio. CBS's On Our Own shows what happens when two young girls get into the advertising business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Some Old, Some New, a Lot Borrowed, a Little Blue | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

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