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...unsubstantiated rumor designed to humiliate new House Speaker Thomas Foley. Just as Foley was poised to take the gavel from departing Speaker Jim Wright's hand, a memo from the Republican National Committee was circulating to state party chairmen and G.O.P. Congressmen. Titled "Tom Foley: Out of the Liberal Closet," the memo compared his voting record with that of Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, an acknowledged homosexual. For days, an aide to Republican minority whip Newt Gingrich had been calling more than a dozen reporters trying to get the homosexuality rumor into print...
This year, the results could be different. Especially for the heavies, whose closet margin of victory over an Eastern team was a three second win over Princeton at the Redwood Shores Regatta in mid-April...
...rifled through my bed, emptied my dresser drawers and checked my closet for clues three separate times. No Blankie. No Blankie. No Blankie...
...most curious tale in North's testimony concerned the "family fund": a stash of up to $15,000 in cash that North claimed he kept in a steel box bolted to the floor of a closet in his suburban Washington home. North's initial explanation of how he happened to have that much cash lying around elicited muffled laughter from the courtroom audience. "When I would come home on Friday . . . I would take my change out of my pocket and put it in that steel box I'd been issued as a midshipman." When Keker expressed his disbelief, North added...
...would-be rescuers, mostly passers-by and circulation desk staffers, scrambled but failed to locate a maintenance closet key, which could also unlock the elevator doors, Lonoff said. A key was finally located, but not before a bystander called the Cambridge Fire Department...