Word: chappaqua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...technique used by police to pressure a suspect by letting him know he is being watched. The FBI's investigation of Felix Bloch, the American diplomat suspected of espionage, by last week had mushroomed beyond hostility into full-blown hysteria. When Bloch and his daughter drove from suburban Chappaqua, N.Y., into Manhattan, they were followed by a posse of federal officers, news reporters, camera crews and, said Government sources, a carload of KGB agents...
...woman behind the scenes of much of our news coverage, Davis has learned to cope with the unforeseen. A native of Chappaqua, N.Y., she began her career in the news business quietly enough, as a secretary at LIFE in 1967. She first encountered the full pressures and unpredictabilities of journalism in 1972, when she went to work as secretary to TIME's deputy chief of correspondents. She later moved to the news desk, which serves as a liaison between our New York City editorial offices and our correspondents around the world. Davis became news desk manager in 1980, and five...
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...involvement in movies proved a watershed. Director Conrad Rooks, who was making Chappaqua, a counterculture movie with a score by Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar, asked Glass to write down Shankar's complex, exotic melodies so that six bewildered Parisian studio musicians could play them. "Ravi and his tabla player, Alla Rahka, kept telling me I was getting it all wrong," Glass recalls. "No matter how I tried to notate the music, they kept shaking their heads. Out of sheer desperation, I just eliminated the bar lines altogether -- which, of course, revealed the fact that Indians don't divide music...
...moving into a recession. It showed that industrial production declined .6% in September, falling for the first time since the last recession ended in November 1982. Economist James Tobin of Yale University warned that the Federal Reserve should be concerned about a new downturn. Levy Economic Forecasts of Chappaqua, N.Y., proclaimed that the recession was already here...