Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told the President a stunning piece of news: he had just ordered the FBI to undertake a preliminary investigation of Carter's two closest White House aides, Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan and Press Secretary Jody Powell. The reason: an allegation that Jordan had snorted cocaine during a visit to New York City's Studio 54, a celebrated disco club-the first version of the story said in April 1978-and that Powell had been with him at the time...
...story but said he had never even been to Studio 54. In Washington, Jordan also denied the charge. He had gone to Studio 54 for about an hour once last year, he told the FBI, but not in April and certainly not for drugs, nor did he ever visit the basement where the incident allegedly took place. Said he: "I did not attempt to buy or use cocaine-that is absolutely untrue...
According to Cohn's account, Rubell told him that Jordan on a visit asked for some cocaine and said he wanted "to get high." Rubell said that the cocaine was provided free for the visiting celebrity by a small-time drug seller named "Johnny C.," and added that Rubell and one of his former employees allegedly watched Jordan use it. Cohn got a taped statement from Johnny C. and then went to the federal authorities...
...farms in Anhui province reportedly committed suicide in despair. Meanwhile, others have descended on China's largest city illegally. In Shanghai alone there are now an estimated 300,000 youthful returnees, along with 200,000 younger middle-school graduates who have yet to receive job assignments. After a visit to Shanghai and four other cities in eastern China, TIME Hong Kong Correspondent David DeVoss filed the following report on the country's restless, unemployed youth...
...dominated Adams' life, changed his vocation, gave him his subjects. He was married there, to fellow Californian Virginia Best, a marriage that has lasted 51 years. One of his two children was born there, and not a year has passed since 1916 without his making at least one return visit. Often the visits have been elaborate affairs. Adams, working for the Sierra Club as a photographer and guide, would lead as many as 200 people trekking stubbornly across the landscape. He even staged mock Sophoclean dramas in the woods, written by himself. A photo from 1931 shows Adams...