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COCAINE. Though exact figures are hard to pin down, more and more people apparently are getting a kick out of this extract of the South American coca leaf. Long known as the "society high." cocaine is now being used by everyone from affluent suburbanites to drug-savvy ghetto kids. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Coke and Angel Dust | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

From your article on Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell [June 6]. President Carter's staff appears to be populated by mere "good ole boys." But Carter did not get to be President by hiring political ignoramuses. Jordan and Powell obviously have plenty of savvy-they may break the rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1977 | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

The Communists, led by the savvy Carrillo, had a simple aim: to make the party respectable in a country where it had been outlawed for 38 years. With caveats, they accepted the monarchy and its flag?to the point where wags dubbed them el Real Partido Comunista (the Royal Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: VOTERS SAY 'S | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

Now all the little questions within the big question-Did he really conceive and carry out the assassination of King alone?-would loom large once more. Where did this inept criminal get the money to finance his year of flight, from April 23, 1967, when he broke out of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE QUESTION OF CONSPIRACY | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

Died. Edward N. Cole, 67, outspoken former president of General Motors and auto industry innovator; at the controls of his private plane in a crash near Kalamazoo, Mich. An engineer who rose through the ranks to become president in 1967, Cole had the rare savvy and persistence to conceive an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 16, 1977 | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

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