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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than eight years, Robert M. Morgenthau has enforced federal laws in New York's Southern District with scrupulous impartiality. He has uncovered graft in Democratic as well as Republican city machines, convicted Wall Streeters for illegal Swiss bank dealings, and waged war against New York City's powerful Mafia. But Democrat Morgenthau is a political appointee. According to tradition, when the Republicans took office in Washington, Morgenthau was expected to join the country's 92 other U.S. Attorneys in offering his resignation. He did not, maintaining that he needed time "to complete major cases and investigations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: The Holdout | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...Stockboys wheel out new racks of dresses and are immediately mobbed. Mrs. Conroy: "We sort of crunch those poor boys up against the wall, grab what we can and then, resuming our ladylike dignity, trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Boston Supershoppers | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...East Germans put up the Berlin Wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Top of the Decade: The World | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

After B. C. had built a 2-0 lead on two short shots, Bob McNanama tallied for Harvard on a well-placed short flip. Sandy Wall countered the other first-period Eagle scores with a shot that slid into the lower left-hand corner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Swimmers Win, 52-40; Yardling Icemen Edge B. C., 5-4 | 12/18/1969 | See Source »

...violent expression of her emotions, throwing herself upon the barred door, running from it toward the camera. One camera angle, very long takes, sufficed to show this depth. Now, though, Lang keeps cutting rapidly to different angles within each cell, every angle sticking the characters flat against a blank wall. These cells' only depth leads into corners where Mabuse's raving victims cower...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: The Moviegoer The Testament of Dr. Mabuse at 2 Divinity Avenue tonight | 12/17/1969 | See Source »

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