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...escape Government snoopers hounding them, the Mafia have discovered a new hiding place: the high seas. Like their piratical forebears, they have found a refuge where bullets and bugs are not easily lodged. As one Mafioso told another (in a bugged telephone conversation): "We can talk on the water because it ain't possible to bug a boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Mafia Afloat | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

...suffer a sea change into something rich and strange." The less affluent Gallo brothers, still recovering from the decimation of their gang, have to be content to splash around in a swimming pool they have built in Brooklyn, where there is always the danger of running into a water bug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Mafia Afloat | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

...cannot be denied that when applied to family filmmaking they result in a suitable effort, perhaps the likes of which have not been seen since the death of Walt Disney. Tom Sawyer is far from perfect, to be sure. But compared with such recent Disney productions as The Love Bug, it will no doubt provide quite a refreshing change for those who enjoy "family" films...

Author: By David Blomquist, | Title: A Family Affair | 8/10/1973 | See Source »

...runs a down-home operation with a bunch of good old boys on his committee. There's a war veteran with an arm missing and a camera bug and an Ivy Leaguer and a fellow who used to cure country hams. There is some courtliness, a little cussing beyond earshot, some poetry, and a lot of Bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Country Lawyer and Friends | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

...precise and wholly cooperative Butterfield became the Ervin committee's first mystery witness. He arrived without an attorney, not having had time even to obtain counsel to accompany him. Speaking in understated, undramatic terms, he told a sensational story of how Nixon had made it a practice to bug all presidential conversations. At no time, so far as he knew, Butterfield said, did Nixon seek to cut off the system or were his visitors or callers informed that their words were being taped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: The Battle for Nixon's Tapes | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

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