Word: belled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gains for Lance were not the result of any effort by the President's aides. The normally cool Press Secretary Jody Powell blundered atrociously by phoning several newsmen with the sly tip that Senator Percy might have used corporate aircraft owned by Bell & Howell Co. for personal purposes. The Chicago Sun-Times exposed Powell's ploy after finding no truth to the report...
...mulish support of Lance in the face of the overwhelming evidence that his Budget Director was, at the very least, a wheeler-dealer. Had Carter cut his losses early on by easing Lance out, he would have gotten himself off the hook." From Boston, Senior Correspondent James Bell noted: "A wide variety of politicians, businessmen and academicians only want to know when Lance is going and why he hasn't gone already. You can almost hear Carter's support dripping away like a faucet in the night...
...indictment charging Tongsun Park, the onetime Washington rice-and-influence broker, with 36 violations of federal statutes, including conspiracy to bribe Congressmen, mail fraud, illegal campaign gifts, and failure to register as an agent of the South Korean government. Hinting that more indictments might be coming, Attorney General Griffin Bell suggested coyly, "We'll have to see what the harvest will bring...
Just whom Bell had in mind was not altogether certain. Former California Representative Richard Hanna was not only named as a co-conspirator in the Park indictment, but he was also described as having acted as an agent for South Korea while in Congress and having received over $100,000 for his services. Yet Justice officials were not sure they had enough evidence to indict Hanna. One immediate effect of the Park indictment was clear, however: the chances that the Korean would show up in Washington again were slimmer than ever...
...injured in the 6 million Malibu laps to date (though one nervous driver sprained a finger on the steering wheel, and several speeders have crashed through a fence). After buying tickets ($1.25 a lap) and getting instructions on safety regulations and the operation of the car, drivers buckle into Bell helmets and safety belts to await the red, amber and green signal light at the starting line. There is no wheel-to-wheel competition: each car is electronically released, at nine-second intervals, if the track is clear. But when the light turns green and the engine revs...