Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...free, free as a bird. I'm going to have a ball in New York," said Martha Mitchell to Washington Post Columnist Maxine Cheshire as she packed up to leave the capital for good. After several months of unaccustomed silence, the chatty wife of the former Attorney General wanted to clear up some unfinished business. For one thing, "I want to be sure my side is revealed in that people know I'm not sitting here a mental case or an alcoholic," she told another reporter. Martha also wanted to identify the brute who had ripped the phone...
...gunmen methodically scooped up about $700 from the club's cash registers and casually collected the wallets and purses of the dead and dying. Then they walked away toward the hills, according to a man who watched, "with their guns slung over their shoulders as if they were bird hunters...
...Lady gave at their San Clemente home. They included such oldtime stars as John Wayne, Jack Benny, George Jessel, James Stewart, Joan Blondell, Ray Bolger, Jimmy Durante and Lawrence Welk, as well as some Democratic turncoats: Frank Sinatra, Jim Brown, Charlton Heston and George Hamilton. (Remember George and Lynda Bird?) The President was in high spirits, chatting amiably and expressing his gratitude "for what you, the people of Hollywood, have done for America and have done for the world...
...McGovern and McGovern watchers, it was the best of weeks and the worst of weeks. Nothing is harder to cover than uncertainty-so TIME reporters covered just about everybody. Neil MacNeil bird-dogged McGovern through every between-vote interlude in the Senate lobbies, found him and Hubert Humphrey almost guiltily sneaking off to the "neutral office" of the Secretary of the Senate. MacNeil learned from Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff that McGovern had called one morning at near dawn to ask him to intercede with Ted Kennedy, then had called back an hour later to offer the job to Ribicoff himself...
Amfac was not always a globetrotter. The company was formed in 1849 by a German sea captain, Heinrich Hackfeld, to sell parasols, silk waistcoats, bird cages and window glass to the Hawaiians. Later, changing its name to American Factors, Ltd., the company became one of Hawaii's celebrated "Big Five" factoring agencies that grew to power by handling financing, shipping, insurance and other services for the sugar plantations. Walker's father, whose own father had been Chancellor of the Exchequer under Hawaii's King Kalakaua, became president of the company in 1933 and ran it until...