Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Private Eyes. Largely for those reasons, Hughes ordered a force of attorneys, auditors, and casino experts to look into his gambling operations. Separately, the managers of Hughes Tool Co. in Houston hired their own private investigators to check up on Maheu. Aware of the probe, Maheu brought in his own private eyes to delve into the affairs of his Houston rivals and to keep watch outside Hughes' suite. At about the same time, various agencies of the Federal Government, the state of Nevada, Clark County and Las Vegas were all prying into the Hughes businesses. So many gumshoes were...
...Sculpture by Henry Moore. Photographs by David Finn; Words by Donald Hall. 160 pages. Abrams. $35. One hundred and thirty-one ways of looking at a bronze-in this case, Henry Moore's Three Piece Reclining Figure No. 2: Bridge Prop. Finn's fine photographs explore masses, probe patinas, present perspectives, titillate with textures. Poet Hall's words are blessedly brief. Their joint aim is to educate the eye. A splendid book for Moore fanciers. For others, the year's richest example of cultural overkill...
...screens last week showed an awkward, eight-wheeled contraption that looked somewhat like the top half of a huge samovar. But what the outlandish vehicle lacked in styling, it more than made up for in performance. Three hours after reaching the moon aboard the latest unmanned Russian moon probe, Luna 17, Lunokhod I (literally "moonwalker") lumbered down one of two ramps extended by the mother ship and moved forward under the direct control of TV monitors on earth-thus taking the first giant step for robotkind on another celestial body...
...America, insofar as student and black rebellions grow, Jews are in danger. Embattled America will probe sources. Marx, Franz Boas- Jewish prophet of egalitarian cultural anthropology (universalism kills anti-Semitism), Hoffman, Rubin, Dohrn, Rudd, Chomsky. Recent outcry against Brandeis University as radical nest. Jewish Defense League. Young Jews rediscovering Judaism and Jewishness. Racial inequality doctrine returning via Lorenz, Ardrey, others. Carleton Putnam thoughtfully exploring such matters in Race and Reason and Race and Reality...
...student body president and an associate professor at Kent State University were among the first 25 persons to be booked Monday following a special grand jury probe of the Kent State riot last May. Two young men already in jail on drug charges also were served with indictments...