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When the trial began in October, the Government's case was in trouble. Although prosecutors had assembled hundreds of reels of tape from court-ordered wiretaps and bugs, DEA investigators conceded in court that they had Barnes' voice on only one tape-and that did not involve a conversation about drugs. The defense denied the voice was Barnes' and put on the stand an undercover agent who admitted he now was not certain it was actually Nicky talking. Nor did any of the other tapes link Barnes to narcotics. Though the Government contended that on one reel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Bad, Bad Leroy Barnes | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

Harvard was the only competitor in the 21-school field to reel off five sub-eighty rounds on Sunday, but yesterday the capricious winds and spike-marked greens made the Geoffrey Cornish-designed course a stern examination paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Linksters Third in Toski Tournament | 10/4/1977 | See Source »

...hours nibbling on a single piece of chicken). One poignant entry in the log came on Nov. 9, 1971, at 1:10 a.m. while Hughes was watching The Ipcress File, a 1960s flick about brainwashing. An aide noted that Hughes could not stand to watch the torture scene in reel three, probably because he was too tortured himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Howard Hughes' Messy Legacy | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

Martha R. Richardson, assistant director of the Modern Language Center, said modifications to the lab include rearrangement of booths, tape storage and the control room, new cassette tape decks to replace the old reel-to-reel decks, and new walls and carpeting...

Author: By Jay Yeager, | Title: New Language Lab Nears Completion | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

...transmit news around the globe; of heart disease; in Canaan, Conn. A tinkerer as a child, Kleinschmidt was only 15 when he began work on the Teletype, an invention that eventually made him a multimillionaire. Among his 100-odd patented inventions: the stock market ticker, an automatic fishing reel, a police radio-teleprinter and a macaroni-twisting machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 22, 1977 | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

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