Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agents carry .357 Magnum revolvers in shoulder holsters. They keep in constant touch via powerful short-wave walkie-talkies; to keep both hands free at all times, they wear earpieces, transceivers on their belts, and tiny microphones at their wrists. The working style of the agents immediately guarding the President tends to reflect his own personality. Kennedy's agents were alert but relatively inconspicuous and, like their charge, showed a fondness for the good life. Johnson's entourage tended to be tenser and more belligerent, sometimes silencing hecklers with flying tackles. The Secret Servicemen surrounding Nixon were characteristically aloof...
...anyone else who would listen, she would pour forth self-criticism and expound on Marxist and Maoist theories. Whereupon both the FBI and the radicals dropped her entirely. Still longing for the thrills of clandestine work, she cultivated ties with San Francisco police, who in turn put her in touch with the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms...
...they adopted a pyramidal organization. At the top was the Weather Bureau, a leadership council that included Dohrn, Jeff Jones and Bill Ayers, the group's theoretician and son of the chairman of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co. Through members acting as couriers, the leaders kept in touch with a nationwide network of four-or five-member cells which were constantly on the run. Known as "foco," the Spanish word for "focus" or "center," they each operated independently, recruiting new members and carrying out bombings and other terrorist acts that had been cleared in advance by the Weather...
Then suddenly Patty was found. Randolph Hearst was as surprised as anyone; he had not been in touch with the FBI for months. Rushing back home from New York City, he was met at the airport by his wife and two of their five daughters: Anne, 20, a college student who was just finishing up her probation after pleading guilty last spring to a charge of possessing amphetamines; and Victoria, 18, a freshman in college. (The Hearsts have two other daughters: Catherine, 35, is retarded and lives in Los Angeles; Virginia, 26, lives in London with her husband, an American...
Like others who have paid calls of late, Atkins found Nixon in good spirits. He looked bright-eyed and fit, showed a touch of the old presidential bearing and vigor and was seemingly determined to demonstrate that the Nixon household had weathered Watergate and returned to normality. Atkins' color photographs, shown exclusively in TIME on the following pages, bear out those impressions...