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...caught in the limelight again last week, and the man who put him there was none other than Brother Richard. The Washington Post reported-and nobody really denied-that for more than a year during the President's first term in office he had had the Secret Service tap his brother's telephone...
...ability to exploit the times. Whether Bobby Riggs is one of history's greatest hustlers conning the world or just a fortunate zany defies a quick answer. He is probably a bit of both. For a guy who would not know Gloria Steinem if she tap-danced across his chest in spike heels, he has gone a long way with sexism. But a true hustler does not depend on luck, and Riggs was awfully lucky to fall into the right game at the right time. Five years ago these superheated matches could not have happened, and five years from...
...full time in, say, Kansas City, we'd pay him $20,000 and maybe only one story of his would get on the air in a year." Similarly, Cronkite has long advocated a later hour for the evening news, either 10:30 or 11:00; such scheduling would tap the massive prime-time audience. Presently, CBS stations run the program live or on tape at a wide variety of times. "For example, Chicago puts us on at 5:30," Cronkite complains, "a bad time for an evening news show...
...famine as close as the next crop failure. Last year, according to the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, farm output in 42 developing nations actually dropped by 1%. As a result, some of these countries now face outright starvation. Until the developing world can learn to tap its own fast-growing potential-and curb its runaway population growth -demand on farmers in the U.S. and other big food-growing countries will remain strong...
...without the knowledge or approval of either the President or the Attorney General. The FBI'S "bag jobs" were mostly attempts to obtain material to break the codes of foreign governments (inevitably, the agency imbued its own efforts with a code name: the Anagram Program) or to tap the telephones of organized-crime figures. Some of the burglaries directed against Mafia types were authorized by various Attorneys General, but J. Edgar Hoover apparently never revealed the full scope of FBI burglarizing to his many bosses. Hoover eventually decided in 1967 that surreptitious entries should be discontinued because they posed...