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Like squids, scientists protect themselves with clouds of impenetrable ink. Not Carl Sagan. His jargon-free book The Cosmic Connection (1973) involved thousands of readers in the search for life beyond earth. Last year, during the Mars probe, he became a TV celebrity with plausible descriptions of the creatures that might be populating outer space. The Dragons of Eden should involve thousands more in the exploration of inner space - the human brain...
...said to own 24% of the Aladdin Casino and virtually to control its operation. A court affidavit disclosing the probe was the first official word of Mob holdings in a Las Vegas casino since Nevada authorities supposedly ran them out of town about ten years...
...played by Richard Baskin (who also wrote the scores for Welcome and Nashville). He serves the function of being the token enigma in the cast, providing a refreshing contrast with the honesty-chic psychobabble of the Los Angelenos. Rudolph deliberately made no effort to flesh out the character, to probe his innermost feelings. The viewer never sees Wood outside of the recording studio, and he maintains his aloofness even within his own habitat, always seated behind a piano bathed in darkness and shadows while singing one of his plaintive songs about the lonely hearts of Southern California...
...that all bureau abuses had been uncovered. But then a Socialist Workers Party lawsuit produced new, damning evidence of repeated "black bag jobs," or illegal break-ins, by FBI agents in several cities. Pottinger was permitted to assemble a task force of Justice Department lawyers and FBI agents to probe bureau excesses, starting in New York. The inquiring agents were quickly labeled "the dirty dozen" by their colleagues. They discovered a detailed list of extraordinary activities by agents, many of which were illegal, in a safe maintained by John F. Malone, a stolid G-man nicknamed "Cement Head," who headed...
Much of our reporting came from Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, who has long covered developments in aviation and space for TIME. To this assignment Hannifin brought some particularly apt qualifications; he is not only an associate member of the Society of Air Safety Investigators, which promotes improved crash-probe techniques, but also a pilot of what he describes as the "Lindbergh baby" generation, with nearly 2,500 hours of flying time which he has accumulated over the past 27 years in craft ranging from modern jet interceptors to his own classic Ercoupe and a Cessna 182 that he shares with...