Word: roberts
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...Pepsi, Coffee, Tea.'' When told that he is heading for the wrong aircraft, the President roars, ''Son, they're all my helicopters.'' At the end, ''Q'' Clearance dangles an intriguing question: Where did a onetime spinner of sea-horse operas learn to write comedy? Perhaps from his grandfather, Humorist Robert Benchley, or from his father, Novelist Nathaniel, or even from the exasperating Johnson (Lyndon, not Samuel), for whom young Peter once worked as a White House speechwriter. In any case, this Benchley's latest effort contains some memorable slapstick. When Burnham splits his pants on the way to his first...
...charm. Carolyne Chirichello Santa Cruz, Calif. Your cover illustration of Cuomo was a joy to behold. Al Hirschfeld has been doing those fabulous line drawings since the George M. Cohan days. And, as is his tradition, he even hid his daughter Nina's name in the Governor's hair. Robert C. Southee Chief, Design and Graphics Division U.S. Department of Commerce Washington
...companies: the Rev. Donald Wildmon of Tupelo, Miss., a Methodist minister and founder of the ultraconservative National Federation for Decency. The Justice Department vigorously denied that it plans prosecutions and insisted that its ''fair-reply letter'' was not a McCarthyite tactic. ''There is not a blacklist,'' says Government Attorney Robert Cynkar. ''There never was.'' Playboy's lawyer, Bruce Ennis, asserts that the commission's letter was drafted specifically to intimidate the magazine ''because it couldn't do so using the law.'' No jury has ever found Playboy to be legally obscene under the guidelines prescribed by the Supreme Court, although...
...they will return home in months or years. Or ever. On this and the following pages, TIME publishes the first photographs to appear in the U.S. of the ruined nuclear plant, the cleanup operation and the surrounding countryside. One of the few Americans who have seen Pripyat is Dr. Robert Gale, a bone- marrow specialist who helped Soviet doctors cope with the Chernobyl disaster, which so far has cost 26 lives. ''It's a very dramatic thing to see a partially destroyed nuclear power plant,'' Gale told reporters after taking a helicopter tour of the scene. ''The damage itself doesn...
Finally, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole aroused the delegates, predicting, ''The fight can be won if we continue to press for the appointment of judges who interpret the law rather than invent the law.'' The appearance of Robertson, Kemp and Dole in Denver signaled that abortion has become a litmus-test issue for right-wing support in G.O.P. presidential politics. By coincidence, the three-day right-to-life meeting took place only five blocks away from a hotel that was host to the annual convention of the National Organization for Women, one of the most vocal advocates of free choice...