Word: barneys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...planned for everything, down to the brass band waiting to toot out a welcome at the Las Vegas station. Or had he? Passengers taking in the scenery suddenly noticed a 1923 Chrysler touring car and a 1925 brewery truck following the train on an adjacent road. Rival Hoodlum Barney Weiss apparently had dispatched his own welcoming party to greet Big Jim. From a machine gun mounted on the back of the truck, a Weiss torpedo named Charley Ice fired several bursts at the passing coaches. Two other goons opened up with shotguns. Valenti and his bodyguard, Tony Robozo, fired back...
...sharing the limelight is just what New Hampshire will have to do if a band of bandwagoners in nearby Massachusetts gets its way. Led by Barney Frank, a savvy, voluble liberal Democratic State Representative, and Mark Shields, a former campaign adviser to Robert Kennedy and Edmund Muskie, the group plans to see to it that the Massachusetts primary is held the same day as New Hampshire's. The effect, of course, would be to blunt New Hampshire's political impact and to grab part of the first-in-the-nation hoopla...
...case of New Hampshire, supporters of the regional primary think their idea can streamline a system that is growing increasingly unwieldy. There are already 30 primaries scheduled for next year-seven more than in 1972 -and primaries to be held on the same day are often widely scattered. Says Barney Frank: "The way it is now, we ask the candidates to play transcontinental hopscotch from primary to primary. It's ridiculous. You have to be a road runner to run for the presidency." Establishing regional primaries would also ensure candidates' visiting more states than they might otherwise...
...April; now they think that the total may be as low as $3.2 billion. Underwriters, who buy newly issued bonds from companies and resell them to the public, have had to unload some at profitless prices. Complains J. Perry Ruddick, senior vice president of Manhattan's Smith Barney & Co.: "All of a sudden, every time you bought, you were wrong...
...Barney Daly, equipment manager for the Athletic Department: "UCLA and Kentucky. Kentucky could beat them in the finals. Now, I really think that Princeton did the best job of anybody around by winning the NIT. That's cause I'm an Ivy League fan, you know...