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...know one thing. I can't stand an FBI interrogation of Colson ... Colson can talk about the President, if he cracks. You know I was on Colson's tail for months to nail Larry O'Brien on the Hughes deal. Colson told me he was going to get the information I wanted one way or the other. And that was O'Brien's office they were bugging, wasn't it? And who's behind it? Colson's boy Hunt. Christ. Colson called [Magruder] and got the whole operation started. Right from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Much Ado About Haldeman | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...told airlines, including United, American, Delta and Swissair, that it will build one plane seating seven abreast. But the plane can made with either two or three engines; seating can vary between 180 and 210, and ranges can be either 2,300 or 4,600 miles. Forward of the tail, where the third engine will be located, both the tri-jet and twin-jet will be virtually identical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Boeing Plans a Rubber Plane | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...building in Yellowknife (pop. 10,000), a gold-mining town on Great Slave Lake, some 1,000 miles north of the Montana border. She saw what "looked like a jet on fire. There were dozens of little pieces following the main body, all burning and each with its little tail of fire just like the big piece." At a Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment in Hay River, 125 miles south of Yellowknife, Corporal Phil Pitts saw a "bright white and incandescent" glowing object and reported it as a meteorite. Told later that it was a uranium-bearing satellite, he declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cosmos 954: An Ugly Death | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...hear every word, and sing every line along with Allen Ginsburg and Peter Rolovski. Ginsberg and his troupe sat at the front of the basement room wailing, and reading lyrically with little compunction. Rolovski is a burly-looking guy with his long blond hair pulled back into a pony tail, packing the peaceful power of a waiting wrestler. Ginsberg was the usual Ginsberg--unpredictable hair straggling out into space, tinged with gray. His face had wrinkled since those early photographs in Life, yet the gurulike beard gave him an aged, if not a sagely...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Allen Ginsberg: Mindbreaths in the Night | 2/4/1978 | See Source »

...agent who complained about the cozy -and illegal-purchasing arrangement was told he was not a "team player" and transferred. Apparently, the Hoover aides valued U.S. Recording's silence about FBI eavesdropping practices; they also enjoyed frequent poker parties with the firm's owner, Joseph Tail. No evidence was found of payoffs from the company to FBI officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hoover's Home Improvements | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

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