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...inner council. When Allen became head of the CIA in 1953, he applied the same stylish ingenuity and ruthlessness he had learned in the OSS. One of his greatest successes was the Berlin Tunnel in 1954. At a cost of $4 million, the CIA burrowed into East Berlin to tap all calls, from Communist Berlin, including those to Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cold War's First Family | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...next day, across the campus in the IAB, the women's basketball team will battle Southeastern Massachusetts, or SMU as they are fondly called. The opening tap is scheduled for 3 p.m., after which a lot of running up and down the court and shooting of the ball is planned by both teams...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Basketball for the Beflued and Befuddled | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

...stature of Abe or George, or even John Connally who spoke Tuesday night in the Harvard Science Center on "Government: Its Uses and Abuses" (the latter is, some say, his area of expertise), but some pretty good lectures, as well as some rather obscure ones, are on tap...

Author: By Gideon Gil, | Title: The Bane of Our Futures | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

With computers on tap and electronic eyes in the sky, modern man has thus come far in dealing with the weather, alternately his nemesis and benefactor. Yet man's predicament today is not too far removed from that of his remote ancestors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Weather: Everyone's Favorite Topic | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...even if we all get in touch with our feelings and tap our feet to our biorhythms, we still can't cope. While pop psychological and sociological analyses may provide short-term solutions to the problems posed by life in American society, they don't really get to the roots of those problems. Indeed, as Christopher Lasch argues in Haven in a Heartless World, the new nostrums are more symptomatic than curative of America's psychological malaise...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: On Home Remedies | 2/3/1978 | See Source »

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