Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks, Senator Church has vowed to get to the bottom of the claim that the CIA was involved in foreign assassination plots, a subject that the Rockefeller commission sidestepped while concentrating on the agency's domestic transgressions. Roselli was an invaluable witness, particularly since his partner in the planned crime was no longer available for questioning. Two weeks ago, Sam Giancana, 66, the onetime Mafia don in Chicago and Roselli's friend since their days in the old Capone gang, was shot to death by persons and for reasons still unknown...
...emergency program is hardly a solution to Haiti's underlying problems. Basically, the once abundant island is an ecological disaster area. The relatively few acres of good bottom land are owned by American sugar growers or by the Duvalier family and their friends. The rest of the island consists largely of steep hillsides that have been denuded of trees-the wood is converted to charcoal and sold in the capital of Port-au-Prince for five times the 300 a bag the peasants receive for it. When it does rain, the soil on the hills is washed away. There...
Panic-Stricken. In financially troubled New York City, where the education budget has been cut almost $270 million, the teacher firings will be the first since the Depression. Says Ronald Jones, a teacher at P.S. 10: "Teachers on the bottom of the list are panic-stricken, bewildered; they can't believe it. They're hoping that some guy will come out of the sky with the money." School Chancellor Irving Anker predicts that the firings will result in many classes having more than 40 pupils in September-compared with the previous average of less than...
...white, I'm on the bottom line...
...Keatons. It must be said that at bottom-which is exactly 5 ft. 6 in. from the top-Allen has not altered in technique since his earliest films. The only plot that ever concerns him is the one in which he will be buried. His persona is still the kind of man whose profile should not be painted but wallpapered. His situations continue to bear traces of two Keatons. In this case, Buster is the right source; Diane is not. Allen's longtime companion is saddled with Lines that make her Groucho in bombazine ("Thank you, your grubbiness"). Because...