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...unpaid accounts." At seven the future Vice President washed glasses in the family drugstore. At 16 he wept with his parents when they were forced to sell the family home. His political philosophy was soon forged: New Deal, Big Government. "I witnessed," he writes, "how government programs literally rebuilt the territory and again made life tolerable...
Wagner plays a latter-day Wonder Woman who became the world's first bionic woman after she was nearly killed in a skydiving accident; doctors rebuilt her, piece by voluptuous piece, with 80-m.p.h. legs, a right arm that can shatter trees and an ear capable of hearing leaves rustle in the next county. Between classes at a military base in Ojai, Calif., where she is a schoolteacher, she moonlights as an intelligence agent...
Television's bionic twosome, Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers, seemed made for each other-literally. Like Steve, she had been rebuilt with superhuman powers by space-age engineers. Sure enough, when she made some try-out appearances on ABC's Six Million Dollar Man last year, Austin's all-seeing artificial eye nearly popped out of his head. Who could blame him? Jaime looked smashing, and as Steve's blood pressure climbed, so did the show's ratings. Explains willowy Lindsay Wagner, who plays Jaime: "Viewers tuned in to see whether passion could flow between...
...Perhaps there are as yet unrevealed scandals about Wilson's private life which he wants to forestall revelation of by resignation. In the last few days Jeremy Thorpe, the man who rebuilt the Liberal party, has been the near-victim of pathological lies by an indigent agricultural worker. Rumors about Wilson's private life and his relation to his private secretary, Marcia Williams (scandalously elevated to the peerage as Lady Faulkender a few years ago) could get nastier. Or there may be things no one has ever mentioned in the press. The surprise resignation of Willy Brandt two years...
...finally lifted from Angola after the April 1974 coup d'etat in Portugal, only one of the three liberation movements actually controlled liberated areas within Angola and only one had opted to direct its operations from inside the country--UNITA. It was only after the April coup that MPLA rebuilt its base in Luanda. Having been an urban, primarily intellectual movement ever since its inception in 1956, MPLA had been forced underground by the early '60s, and was only recently able to re-activate its urban cells...