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Last night's action aimed to changer that, making committee absences add toward the total permitting. The allowable number was raised from three absences to four, form full weekly sessions or from committee meetings. New rules would also permit five absences from a combination of weekly and committee meetings before members are automatically expelled...

Author: By Michaeld. Nolan, | Title: Council Attends to Attendance | 4/9/1985 | See Source »

Anthony Ulasewicz, 63, former New York City policeman and White House gumshoe whose street lingo spiced up Senate Watergate hearings. Arranging hush-money payments, he made so many secretive phone calls from booths that he wore bus driver's money changer on his belt. He called distributing the cash "getting rid of the cookies." Convicted of tax evasion. Given year's probation. Now lives in tiny town of Day (pop. 656) in woods of northern New York. Hunts, fishes, raises chickens ("Just for eggs-I never eat my chickens"). Seeking publisher for 367-page ghostwritten manuscript called Tony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aftermath of a Burglary | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...Walker (arrested in a Dallas men's room in 1976 for public lewdness), and Pat Nixon ("stress-related stroke"). This is simply idle, and a spongy chapter relating the life of New York City's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, who was neither an immigrant nor a name changer but is gathered into Morgan's embrace anyway, is not much better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Countless Blessings | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...invention of the remote control channel-changer for televisions may go down as one of the greatest of all time. It is certainly heaven on earth for those of us who abhor commercials yet are too lazy to make the 10-foot trek to and from the tube itself. But last Sunday afternoon, no matter how often I pushed the clicker, all I saw was boxing. And then a strange thing happened: I began to think...

Author: By Sandy Cardin, | Title: Boxing Gets Up Off Canvas | 3/23/1977 | See Source »

...efforts, Kissinger's title to replace "Peace Ambassador" might be more exactly "Money Changer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Sep. 15, 1975 | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

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