Word: bowden
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...John Bowden Connally Jr., 62, was speaking to 1,500 party loyalists at a candidates' forum in Chicago, but the mood and curiosity were repeated in 25 cities in ten states last month as he cantered north from his Texas ranch in his quest for the White House. He has paced himself carefully, first courting the faithful of his adopted party and luring many of its leaders into his camp, then hitting the board rooms where his fund-raising ability is legendary. This month he will be on the road for 25 days in 16 states. His extravagant television campaign...
According to Agent King's testimony, hundreds of thousands of dollars were funneled to the fugitive by Laverne Bowden, president of Fidelity Equipment Leasing Corp., the Atlanta holding company for Thevis' pornographic distribution firms and retail outlets. King testified that Thevis' father George was seen carrying paper bags and manila envelopes stuffed with cash from the Fidelity offices. Before his elimination, Underbill deposited large sums of money in a Bahamian bank account. Thevis then borrowed money from the bank. An attorney placed shares of AT&T worth $297,000 in a trust in Thevis' name...
...also believes it knows what Thevis did with some of the money. In his diary, according to King's testimony, the pornographer wrote "Liz [a pet name for Bowden]-$6,000," then added that a rifle had been purchased. In one of Thevis' datebooks, there is an entry on Oct. 25, the day of the Underbill murder: "RU killed." A diary also showed that the balding pornographer had been scheduled to get a hair transplant the day after the ambush but had called...
...Farmer Brown jokes aside, the Woodsmen (ugh) are 4-0 this year and have their best squad since the era of Bob Blackman, Murray Bowden, Jim Chasey, and Brendon O'Neill at the turn of the decade. In 1970 Dartmouth finished its season undefeated and ranked 15th in the nation, the last Ivy squad...
Almost a year after a federal jury acquitted him on charges of accepting a $10,000 bribe to help raise milk price supports, John Bowden Connolly Jr. is about to step back into public life: President Ford plans to return him to the ten-member Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. For a man who was Richard Nixon's Treasury Secretary, Lyndon Johnson's close adviser, John Kennedy's Navy Secretary, and three-term Governor of Texas, it is another start. The board is to be given larger responsibilities in overseeing the Government's battered intelligence agencies. TIME...