A REPORTER AT LARGE about dioxin contamination in&around Seveso, in Lombardy, Italy. On July 10, 1976, an explosion in a chemical reactor at the plant of …
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Thomas Whiteside on the series of televised interviews between the talk-show host David Frost and the former President—a “blockbuster of a trial,” he wrote, in 1977.
A REPORTER AT LARGE about tomatoes. Writer discusses the difficulty of finding truly fresh tomatoes in markets, today. Supermarket tomatoes are pale pink, …
REPORTER AT LARGE about credit-reporting abuses of the consumer-investigation industry. Reports are compiled & disseminated on applicants for various kinds…
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PROFILE of Ted Adams, 44, a Cockney street trader of flowers & antiques in London, who is known as Teddy the Monk. He is in the junkier end of the …
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PROFILE of Ralph Nader, 39, consumer activist, who first came into the public eye in 1965, 7 years after graduation from Harvard Law School, with the …
Thomas Whiteside on how anti-smoking activists killed the cigarette advertisement.
REPORTER AT LARGE about defoliation operations in S. Vietnam, whichbegan late in 1961, and herbicides for civilian use, which has been going on since soon …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Twiggy, England's foremost teen-age fashion model. Teddy the Monk, who said his last name is Adams, acted as her bodyguard. He …
A 1963 interview with the manager of the Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr—who brought the group from Liverpool to stardom and started Beatlemania with their appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
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Thomas Whiteside on the pioneering producer who brought reality to television.
Part II of REPORTER AT LARGE about Sir Edward Watkin's Cha nel Tunnel Company which after having succeeded in tunnelling a mile and three quarters toward …
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PROFILE of Dave Garroway, who presides over the NBC televison program "Today", which runs from 7 to 9 AM weekdays. The program, which started in 1952, is a…
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PROFILE of Capt. Henrik Kurt Carlsen, master of the freighter the Flying Enterprise, aground on the coast of Cornwall, who held out aboard his disabled and…
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PROFILE of Daniel Fraad, Jr., president of Allied Maintenance Corp., a housekeeping enterprise with a staff or nearly 5000. It's troops of moppers, …
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PROFILE of Sylvester L. Weaver, Jr., president of the NBC TV & radio network, who at one time worked as radio executive with American Tobacco Co., during …
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PROFILE of Sylvester L. Weaver, Jr., the young dynamic president of the NBC radio & TV network, a former radio executive of Young & Rubricam, & of American…