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...braless and wore a revealing dress. But the waitress who served her and the three doctors at a coffee-shop on the road back from Rockport said she dremembered the woman in the group as wearing a severe shift, the top half of which was rumpled and covered with tint...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: The Medical Profession on Trial | 2/11/1982 | See Source »

Such distortions led to top-level government decision-making that had little basis in reality. Former CIA agent Sam Adams, whose disclosures prompted the CBS investigation, recalled reading a captured document indicating enemy troop strengths ten times higher than U.S. estimates. The bankruptcy of the reporting system helped tint the rose-colored glasses which could allow President Lyadon Johnson to declare in March 1967: "General Westmoreland's strategy is producing results [and] our military situation has substantially improved...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: The Trouble With Vietnam | 1/29/1982 | See Source »

When he came back to headquarters last week, his walls had a fresh, subtle ivory tint, there were new white sofas around the fireplace, and Franklin Roosevelt's six cane-backed chairs had been re-covered in rust-colored leather. Ronald Reagan entered Phase 2 of his presidency in style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Road Ends, Drive Carefully | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...blood on the streets," Hallice says, adding that some of the student protests "had a Russian tint...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Civil Defense Prepares City for Nuclear Attack | 2/3/1981 | See Source »

...collecting an annuity before the night is over. It is just a question of when. The guys next to me are anxious. They have a bet on Hagler in six. One of them has smoked too much dope and is snoring. Somebody is throwing his business cards like confetti: "Tint City." It's a glass company...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: La Nause'e In The Ring | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

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