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...after the vote, Prime Minister Wilson granted TIME London Bureau Chief Herman Nickel the first comprehensive, on-the-record press interview he has given since his February 1974 election. Meerschaum pipe in hand, Wilson sat in a pink velvet easy chair in his comfortable and attractive third-floor office at No. 10 Downing Street. Through the curtained bay window, the breeze carried in the strains of a military band playing in nearby St James Park. The Prime Minister had the relaxed self-confidence of a man who was realizing the rare joy of action decisively taken as he talked optimistically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Harold Wilson: 'A Sense of Timing' | 8/4/1975 | See Source »

...evening early in 1971, as Author Gay Gaetano Galante Septimo Talese (The Kingdom and the Power, Honor Thy Father) was walking home from a Manhattan restaurant with his wife, he spotted a sign on a Lexington Avenue third-floor window: LIVE NUDE MODELS. That was when Talese, a lapsed Catholic of conventionally moralistic upbringing, suddenly realized that the sexual revolution had landed almost literally at his doorstep. Next day he walked back alone for his first massage-parlor massage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Teaser | 7/21/1975 | See Source »

...freshman girl was raped on a third-floor stair landing during orientation week last summer. Once classes started, a home-economics teacher and a Russian teacher were attacked by students. A school accountant was robbed. Throughout the year the school was plagued by arson, larceny and vandalism. Security officers were called almost daily to break up fights or investigate thefts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Violence in Evanston | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

David D. Hiller '75 and Bradley D. Simon '78, occupants of the third-floor and second-floor rooms below Klonsky's, said that there had been water leakage into their rooms, but both said the damage was light...

Author: By Howard Frant, | Title: Fire Chief Blames South House Fire On Wire Overload | 4/11/1975 | See Source »

...become accustomed to a new kind of presidential daughter. Susan Ford, 17, declines to alter her casual style. After classes, she changes from her skirt-and-socks school uniform into baggy white painters' pants with a Charlie Chaplin fit and an equally ill-fitting plaid shirt. Her third-floor world burgeons with plants and needlework (she made patchwork quilts of heirloom quality for special friends this Christmas) and her new hobby, photography, for which White House Photographer David Kennerly gives professional advice. She is cautioned against making demands on the domestic staff, so when her current steady, Gardner Britt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: Betty and Jerry Are at Home | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

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