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...insidious burblings that followed me around the airport. I tried frantically to escape them. I fled into the coffee shop. They followed me. I darted into the bar. They followed me there too. They even trailed me into the rest rooms. Since that time, whenever cheerful and inane melodies seep out of wall speakers, I look uneasily over my shoulder...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Muzak Misery | 9/21/1973 | See Source »

...just don't know what would happen seismically after you've wracked the earth 140 times," says Thomas Ten Eyck, Colorado's Director of Natural Resources. In addition, Denver Geologist David Evans believes that the blasts would create subterranean radioactivity that would sooner or later seep into the Colorado River system-and contaminate the drinking water of 27 million people in seven states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Project Dubious | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

...keeping the music on an even keel by keeping the time and most of the beat, and most importantly, filling out the sound as though there was a horn section. Ask Keith Richards, he's the best around. But his energy and his unbounded onstage joy carry Poco, and seep into Timothy's bass playing. George's drumming, and Paul's guitar work, resulting in five people chanelling their creative energies into the joy of making music for people...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: Child's Claim to Fame | 8/15/1972 | See Source »

...DECISIONS of higher-ups in the squad. Mills bares the personal ambition and selfishness which seep into law enforcement and often bring those most responsible for the law to circumvent it. He portrays a captain and lieutenant who chance serious reprisals in order to gain a breakthrough which will lead to promotion. In the process, they use Lockley as a pawn to further their plan, and they risk the life of an audacious female undercover agent, Past Butler, whose voluntary role in the scheme is to bed down with a high-rolling black pimp who works Times Square. The irony...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Report to the Commissioner | 7/28/1972 | See Source »

Nixon and Connally began conferring on the inflationary economy and the unstable world money markets for two and three hours at a time. Unlike other aides, Connally never took a note, but remembered all. Keeping their plans secret for fear doubts would seep out, they began to sketch out the options open to the President. Yet publicly, they both sounded adamant against controls. Nixon was not at all certain that he actually would bite that bullet. He told a group of editors in Kansas City, Mo., as late as July 6: "You cannot have wage and price controls without rationing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN OF THE YEAR: Nixon: Determined to Make a Difference | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

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