Word: closings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concealed cameras. Haas, who claimed that she had stopped working for the KGB in 1972, told her West German interrogators that she had been recruited by the Russians during a group tour of the Soviet Union in 1969. Her mission for the KGB: to set up a brothel close to the Bonn political and diplomatic scene, and, in the words of the Interior Ministry, "to report on interesting customers and to procure compromising material about them," The price Haas charged for each session of fun and gab was a hefty...
Back home in Baltimore, Weaver's clubhouse office is equipped with closed-circuit television and a telephone line to the dugout that allow him to keep on running the team in just such emergencies Lacking these sophisticated amenities in Oakland, Weaver was reduced to hiding in the dugout toilet to remain close to the action. As he poked his head out between plays, Oakland Manager Jim Marshall spotted him and appealed to the umps...
...when he finally did step down, ostensibly to confine himself to his more general policy-making duties as board chairman, he pestered the new chief with critical memos, maneuvered to circumvent Hamilton's corporate decision making and sometimes even insulted him to his face. One source close to both recalls Geneen remarking in Hamilton's presence shortly before he stepped aside as chief executive: "1 want to get this company in such tight order that even Mickey Mouse...
...thus cleared the way for Pan Am and Texas International, each holding close to 25% of National's shares, to fight fairly freely for control of the airline in the marketplace. If Eastern later gets CAB permission to buy more than 25% of National's stock (it now holds just 100 or so shares), it also will become a serious bidder...
...Quaker idealism, the conviction, as Anderson says, that military people "should regard war as a catastrophe, not an opportunity," helps explain Pearson's unrelenting animus toward Douglas MacArthur, George Patton and James Forrestal. He thought them dangerous men. Back in the '30s MacArthur had sued Pearson for close to $2 million. Pearson got out of the libel suit only after turning up a Eurasian chorus girl whom MacArthur had discarded, and agreeing not to publish, for as long as the general lived, his love letters to her. At Eisenhower's request, correspondents had suppressed the Patton soldier...