Word: firsthand
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TIME has rechecked all aspects of its story, which was based on what it believed was firsthand knowledge of a meeting between Prime Minister Begin and three consulting neurologists. TIME was apparently misled as to the meeting and regrets the error. TIME stands by its report that for a period of weeks following his stroke on July 19 the Prime Minister's work load was significantly reduced...
...like some failed Pleistocene fish in the swirling currents of democracy, Patrick Henry Bruce cannot have been an easy man to know. He refused to discuss his work, except with like-minded people; since he was sure that there was nobody like him in the art world, not one firsthand remark about his methods or aims has survived. In fits of depression, he destroyed part of his output; much of what he did not burn has been lost, and about half of his surviving late work was altered by a "restorer" in the mid-1960s. In almost every way, Bruce...
Close encounters with John Paul II and frequent run-ins with his zealous protectors were the mixed blessings of reporting for this week's 21-page special report on the Pope's historic visit to the U.S. TIME assigned 20 correspondents and stringers to back up the firsthand accounts of Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who traveled on the Pontiffs plane from Italy to Ireland and around...
...guide on this metaphysical journey is Sophie, a veteran of Auschwitz and therefore a firsthand expert on evil. Sophie relates the grotesqueries of the "Final solution," the ovens and boxcars and the unspeakably pervasive smell of burning Jews. And she personifies the onerous guilt that the survivors were left with...
Satisfied that the "war" against the Montonero terrorists had been won, General Videla last year ordered that squalid prisons where thousands of political prisoners were held should be spruced up, and invited the Inter-American Commission to make a firsthand inspection of its human rights performance. As Videla told TIME Buenos Aires Bureau Chief George Russell last week: "We have nothing to hide...