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Word: purrings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...successfully undergone two lie-detector tests and ten days of twelve-hour interrogations by Government agents, and his story remains unshaken. The Securities and Exchange Commission, the Justice Department and the IRS are pur suing investigations. An Amoco spokesman acknowledges that the SEC has subpoenaed four high-ranking current and former executives along with corporate records from the Atlanta office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Executive Swag | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...matched Dwight Eisenhower in his love of people and his belief in people," said Milton. "He possessed great honesty and he had no selfish pur pose. F.D.R. was a master at communicating with the people. They believed him. And then he possessed great optimism. The people learned to believe in themselves and they were able to overcome their troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Last of the Eisenhowers | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...estimated at $450 million. Nonetheless, when Michele Sindona, 59, was reported kidnaped in New York City last week, hardly any one showed signs of alarm about his safe ty, not even the federal prosecutors who had planned to try him next month for fraud. The charges stem from his pur chase in 1972 of a controlling interest in New York's Franklin National Bank, which collapsed two years later in the biggest bank failure in U.S. history. Reason for the calm: just about everyone figured that the kidnaping was a hoax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Missing Person | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...each participant in Hebrew, Arabic and English. White House crews had already tended the greening patch of grass at the site of the ceremony, placed a low riser on the spot and then tenderly carried from the second-floor Treaty Room the sturdy Victorian table that had been pur chased in the time of Ulysses S. Grant. Used by the Cabinet up to the day of Teddy Roosevelt, the table had witnessed some important business. Calvin Coolidge used it for the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which condemned war as a means of settling international disputes. The table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: In Celebration of Peace | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...current semester. With this money, and through the efforts of the Standing Committee on Film, the Carpenter Center has housed weekly experimental screenings, seminars, extra courses, guest lecturers and guest filmmakers. The last few years have seen the establishment of a film archive (with over 700 films), and the pur chasing of Steenback editing tables for film analysis, stop-motion projectors, and special cameras for making blow-ups of individual frames...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Vladimir Petric Teaches Film | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

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