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5 picks · 1984–1993

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THE WHISTLE-BLOWER--PART II
profiles ·

PROFILE of former NYPD Detective Lieutenant David Durk, 57, and his 22-year crusade against police corruption. After becoming unpopular as a whistle-blower…

THE WHISTLE-BLOWER--Pt. I
profiles ·

PROFILE of former NYPD detective lieutenant David Durk, 57, & his 22-year crusade against police corruption. In December of 1971, he appeared before the …

A MOMENT WE HAD TO GRASP
a reporter at large ·

A REPORTER AT LARGE about Soviet filmmakers & the second Entertainment Summit, held in the USSR... In April of 1986, the Moscow branch of the Soviet …

TAKING IT ALL IN
profiles ·

PROFILE of Maurice Braddell, who has been an actor, a writer, an artist, and a painting restorer. He is 85, and has lived in the U.S. since 1958. He was …

PAINTING THE ELEPHANT
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the M.T.A. (Metropolitan Transportation Authority), under the chairmanship of Richard Ravitch. The job was offered to him by …