Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCormack took his friend's advice, waged a gentlemanly campaign without any real expectation of winning-and lost gracefully. In a post-election letter, Gallivan expressed his thanks: "Let me congratulate you on the splendid and clean manner in which you conducted your campaign. It was a source of sincere regret that I had to have you as my opponent." Two years passed, and Jim Gallivan did indeed drop dead. Nine Democrats, including John McCormack, filed for the party's nomination to succeed Gallivan. The Irish masters of Boston-including Kingmaker James Michael Curley and Martin Lomasney, boss...
...Clean Record. Inevitably, a few accidents have occurred. Last year in Long Beach, Calif., a barrel of low-level waste blew up and scattered its contents over almost a mile because of improper handling by the disposal company, which lost its AEC license. In Antioch. Calif., two years ago, another low-level barrel leaked slightly into the San Joaquin River, from which Antioch draws its drinking water; after much testing and explaining by AEC, townspeople were persuaded that the water was still safe...
...problem," says SEC, "goes beyond isolated violations, and amounts to a general deficiency of standards and a fundamental failure of controls." Recognizing that some Amex members have been trying to clean their own house, SEC indicated that the real problem is enforcement of existing regulations ("In certain respects the rules of the Exchange are stronger than those of other exchanges..."). "But," warned the investigators, "the [SEC] must be prepared to exercise its supervisory powers if the necessary reform is not forthcoming...
...Gaetano Marzotto, 67, whose family-owned Marzotto Textile is Italy's biggest wool spinner and producer of readymade clothes. Several years ago, enraged by an all-night bout with bedbugs in a Sicilian hotel, Marzotto set out to build his own hotels in Italy's remote places. Clean, simple and inexpensive, the improbably named "Jolly Hotels" were such a success that the Marzottos now have 51 of them, the biggest privately owned hotel chain in Italy...
...drama of destalinization moved into the theater last week. A new Moscow play pitted a Stalin-trained secret police heavy ("Give me this Leontyev, and in two weeks he will crack like a nut") against a clean-cut hero cop who ringingly denounces the Stalinists: "They are not tormented by their conscience. They never...