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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard Nixon is still acting in the role of a sharp lawyer defending a criminal. The public, whom he admits he has let down, will not be deceived again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 23, 1977 | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...statement with a Senate committee listing his "direct liabilities" as $5,343,797. He valued his assets at $7,968,354 and thus his net worth at $2,624,557. That looked like a comfortable cushion. But the value of some of Lance's holdings has suffered a sharp decline. At the same time, his income has been cut drastically since he took his Washington job. How he can meet the estimated $370,000 in interest payments on his various loans this year and maintain his lavish living style mystifies his friends. It may turn out, says Pattillo, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Budget Chief's Balance Sheet | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

Carlos weighs in with easily the most diverse collection of styles that a major rock guitarist has assembled in a while. The fuzzed-out vibrato of his riffs on "Let the Children Play" provides a sharp contrast with the intricate acoustic guitar performance that highlights "Verao Vermelho," a song that somehow seems incomplete without a castanet-clapping flamenco dancer and a few serenading gitanos strumming away in the background. "Revelations" unveils still another Carlos Santana, a Carlos who has lent an attentive ear to the mournful strains of the great blues guitarists like B.B. King and Muddy Waters. This eleven...

Author: By Jose LUIS Contreras, | Title: Oye Como Va Carlos... | 5/20/1977 | See Source »

Although he allowed few hits, hurler McOsker was not particularly sharp. In the fifth inning, he hung a curve which second baseman Bob DiGrazia belted for another four bagger, to make the score...

Author: By Karen M. Bromberg, | Title: Judges Overrule Batsmen, 5-2 | 5/17/1977 | See Source »

...captured couple's rucksacks, as well as train tickets to Zurich and several forged identity documents. Authorities suspect that Sonnenberg and Becker had been bringing the arms and documents to a secret meeting of terrorists in Switzerland when they were recognized from newspaper photos by the sharp-eyed old lady in Singen. German and Swiss police were on high-priority alert last week as they searched for two other suspects in the Buback assassination conspiracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Old Lady and the Terrorists | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

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