Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the detectives threatened to arrest both him and his sister, Lennon agreed to work as an undercover agent for $50 a month. He was told to get into the branch of Sinn Fein (the I.R. A.'s political arm) in Luton, a north London industrial suburb. More specifically, he was to do his drinking at a pub called The Foresters, where he met several Irish militants. "I was told to get in on everything they were up to," Lennon recalled. "I cannot remember the exact words [the detectives] used, but one of them said that I should...
This February, the crowds almost got out of hand. Control became an issue when independent councilor Thomas W. Danehy proposed abolition of the rent control board, the administrative arm of the control law. Danehy aimed merely to cause havoc on the council in order to break up the coalition between four liberals and two of the council's five independents that made independent Walter J. Sullivan mayor in February...
Pantoloni picked up the save, just. Hogan lashed one back at the box that hit Pantoloni in the arm, glanced to short stop Pete Jackson who threw out Hogan by a step for Tipton's celebration...
Hardly anybody is happy with the way Americans pay for their elections. The public does not like it-particularly in the wake of Watergate, with its repellent disclosures of arm twisting and fund laundering, briefcases stuffed with $100 bills and blatant influence peddling. "Money, money, money is what has got the people of this country disgusted with politics and politicians," laments Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Hugh Scott. Hubert Humphrey calls fund raising "the most demeaning, disgusting, depressing and disenchanting" chore in public life. Those who are tapped like it no better...
What about the alcoholic who does not want to change-or does not even recognize his problem? For many there is still no answer, no lifeline that can be thrown to them. For many others, however, there is new hope in an old and hitherto unacceptable technique-arm twisting by the boss. Recognizing that alcoholic employees are costing them countless billions a year, many companies are investing money and effort in affirmative action. Since the late '40s, when the first industrial programs started, some 200 firms, including General Motors, Hughes Aircraft and even Hiram Walker, the distiller, have jumped...