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...typical shift last week moved the Washington bureau's Strobe Talbott, 30, who translated the Khrushchev memoirs, out into the Reagan campaign. Said Talbott: "I picked up the Reagan road show on Sunday in Indianapolis, and since then I've visited 14 cities and towns in four states and listened to Reagan do his thing at 31 rallies, fund raisers, press conferences, and town-hall meetings. He has quite a repertory of mother-in-law jokes, folk tales in an Irish brogue, farm stories involving cows and milk buckets, and by now I know them so well that...
...Saturday night brings out the amateurs," my friend Morgan explained. I laugh, trying to envision Ted Mack among this sleek-satined, strobe-lighted decor. "Let's face it--disco clubs were a fad. They peaked maybe ten months ago. It was all over about three months ago." We are sitting in a small anteroom towards the front of the club where they serve a limited menu of hot foot. No one is here to eat and all the high-backed bamboo chairs are empty. A young couple, the man in aqua double knits and the woman in a gay flowered...
TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott reported that President Ford plans this week to set clear limits on the agencies' authority. For example, he will reaffirm the prohibition against domestic undercover work by the CIA. Presidential Counselor John O. Marsh worked through the weekend polishing the President's reform program, but the broad outlines were set by Ford last week on the basis of five months of research by his staff. Ford intends to unveil measures that will preserve much of the agencies' structure but subject them to more Executive oversight and control. Highlights...
...athletes, "Show me your pass." Says Italian Figure Skater Susan Driano: "I was shocked when I arrived. It looks like a P.O.W. camp." Go a few steps inside the bleak main gate and the mood changes dramatically. There is dancing nightly to the driving beat of rock music and strobe lights in the recreation center's Club Intersport discotheque; upstairs, a movie theater is S.R.O. Village swingers, meanwhile, gripe about an 11 p.m. curfew and the strictly enforced regulation that men cannot enter women's residences. "This would be a great place," quips British Bobsledder Tony Norton...
Some Pentagon critics may regard the proposal as disadvantageous to the U.S. On the other hand, reported TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who accompanied Kissinger to Moscow: "Many respected U.S. SALT experts believe that the Backfire is indeed, as the Soviets claim, a tactical and not a strategic weapon and that Pentagon protestations about its threat to the U.S. are based on phony arguments...