Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after the latest tower topplings. Hoyum was driving across backroads when company-hired security men, following up all leads in the case, began tailing him. What began as surveillance ended up as high-speed car chase, with the five pickup trucks full of Burns Security Guards (rented from a Chicago firm) trying to run Hoyum to earth. Debbie Pick of Gasp relates what happened next...
...guards followed, caught up, and surrounded the car on all sides. The trio jumped out of the car, shotguns drawn, and ordered the guards out of the trucks to be placed under citizens arrest. A couple of weeks later, the charges came down--against the Villard men, not the Chicago rent-a-cops...
...private meetings with U.S. Catholics, and especially during his session with the American Bishops' Conference in Chicago on Friday, the Pope intended to raise another of his major continuing concerns: the shortage of young men seeking to become priests. Aides said that he would make it clear, however, that he opposes trying to entice applicants by relaxing any traditional rules of the priesthood. In particular, he will not yield on the issue of celibacy...
...even the populist Carter Administration has backed Volcker's high-interest policy. Yet banks have had plenty of money to lend anyway-perhaps too much. In the past month, the money supply has grown at an annual rate of 11.5%. Beryl Sprinkel, executive vice president of Chicago's Harris Bank, argues that this "hemorrhaging" must be stanched if inflation is ever to be curbed...
...Europe. A joint Joan Sutherland-Marilyn Home recital next month will begin the Emmy award- winning Live from Lincoln Center series of six vocal, instrumental and dance programs. Coverage of perhaps another dozen special events is in the offing, including the San Francisco Ballet, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Chicago Lyric Opera...