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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There in a colorless London house lives George Smiley, Master Spy (ret.). Resolutely out of style, fat as the Michelin tire man, he has long been cuckolded by his wife and betrayed by close associates. It is tune the old cold warrior hung up his spites. Not Smiley. Once more, Author John le Carré trots him out in a flawed and misnamed adventure: Smiley's People is actually about the people's Smiley. All of his endearing characteristics, so well catalogued in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Honourable Schoolboy, are herein amplified. Now heading toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Act for the Circus Master | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Captain, U.S.N. (ret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 3, 1979 | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...Surround these officials," advises Colo nel B.F.M. von Stahl, U.S. Army (ret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: Festival of the Fed-Up | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...case involves a 60 Minutes segment challenging the claim by Army Lieut. Colonel Anthony Herbert (ret.) that he had been relieved of his command for reporting U.S. atrocities in Viet Nam to his superiors. Herbert sued Producer Barry Lando, Correspondent Mike Wallace, CBS and the Atlantic Monthly (which published Lando's account of his investigation of Herbert) for a total of $44.7 million, claiming that he was made to look like a liar. During more than a year of exhaustive pretrial discovery, Lando sat through 26 sessions that produced 2,903 pages of transcript. He answered questions about what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Mind of a Journalist | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

Colonel U.S.A. (ret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1979 | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

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