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...paralyzed much of the staff. Even the most innocent aides assumed that their office telephones were being tapped. Recently, a ranking member of Nixon's staff suspected that his whole office was bugged. When a superior entered and asked some questions, the real replies were scribbled on a pad and given to the boss, while the two continued an innocuous conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: It Gets Worse: Nixon Crisis Of Confidence | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...want to go out there. I feel like a puppy that you're putting on the freeway. I don't think I can make it out there." Eventually the puppy turned into a monster. Found in his apartment last week was a sketch pad on which Bunyard had drawn pictures of a man with an animal head cutting up human bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Harvest of Bad Seeds | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

Actor Steve McQueen, wearing his maximum-security Brillo-pad beard as Prisoner Charrière, has decreed that there will be no interviews, no visitors. Except, of course, Ali MacGraw, Steve's partner in The Getaway, whom he calls "my old lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 7, 1973 | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...Papa Petty's retirement in 1962−induced by a nasty 150-m.p.h. crackup that left him with a limp−the circuit was slightly more respectable and much more lucrative. Today, attracting more than 1,500,000 spectators a year to modern high-banked tracks, drivers pad their earnings by turning their cars into billboards on wheels. This year Richard Petty reaped a reported $500,000 for agreeing to paint the sides of his car STP red. Not a total sellout, he insisted that the top remain Petty blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of the Road II | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...YEWESS is really two nations. Citizens of one prefer the Pink Pad; citizens of the other buy the Blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Is There Intelligent Life on Commercials? | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

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