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...Jack Ruby, to the Mob. Ruby had ties to mobsters in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Dallas, and even, as a boy, to the infamous Al Capone. Nor did the commission seem impressed that Ruby, twelve days before he shot Oswald, asked a notorious Teamster racketeer from Chicago, Barney Baker, to "straighten out" a troublesome union dispute at Ruby's Dallas night club. (The commision might have been more interested, of course, had the FBI disclosed that the CIA had recruited Chicago gangsters to kill Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.) There is no evidence that organized crime had anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The FBI Story on J.F.K.'s Death | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

State Rep. Barney Frank '61, a frequent critic of Dukakis, yesterday called Ackermann an attractive candidate. "I'd love to see her as governor," he said. "However, a liberal candidate for governor needs to start immediately," Frank said...

Author: By Dewitt C. Jones, | Title: Ackermann Ponders Gubernatorial Race | 12/16/1977 | See Source »

...fill the stores, discreetly pulling apart the displays of sweaters and bathrobes. Heck, Christmas shopping can even be fun. If you're not panicked for gift ideas, anyone can relax and enjoy the lights, decorations and choreographed insanity. And if you don't know what to buy because Uncle Barney already has all the ties he needs and your grandmother has 12 different sets of dinner napkins, the stores are full of new gimmicks--and old gimmicks in a new package--to help you finish off your shopping list in style...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: Uncle Barney? Oh, Get Him Alumpa Coal | 12/9/1977 | See Source »

...goal came with two seconds left on a hooking call to Penn's Tom O'Dette. Harvard's normal power play (Jack Hughes, John Cochrane, George Hughes, Barney Cook, and Gene Purdy) looked pretty passing, but just couldn't get that "one good shot...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Icemen Take Advantage, 6-3, of Penn, Penalties | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...third period hadn't even started when the Quakers received a two-minute bench minor. Almost mechanically, the Harvard power play came through yet again at 1:03, as Purdy pushed the puck by Sutton after previous tries by Barney and George in front of the cage had failed...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Icemen Take Advantage, 6-3, of Penn, Penalties | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

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