Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mere mention of Chicago brings forth visions of vote fraud, but evidence that would stand up in court has always been difficult to find. Even in 1960, when it was widely suspected that hanky-panky in Cook County cost Richard Nixon Illinois' electoral votes, 633 indictments resulted in zero convictions. Last week the Chicago Tribune, after months of diligent digging, published charges of massive vote manipulation in the state primary last March by Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic organization. This time the evidence seemed ironclad...
...four regional contests currently under consideration by the network could bring Harvard upwards of $70,000 if the University is selected for the telecast Under ABC's contract with the NCAA Harvard and Dartmouth would cash receive 25 per cent of the television receipts which according to Beeno Cook, executive nice president for ABC would be between $280,000 and $300,000. The remainder of the television receipts would be divided equally among the six other Ivy colleges under the Ivy League revenue sharing plan...
...depends entirely on how the teams do." Cook said last week when contacted in New York. "In a newspaper, you wouldn't put a boring story on page one. The same principle applies here...
...grateful for the presence of actors who can make all this at least momentarily diverting. Tom Skerritt, as a young but already jaded detective, looks like a stoned-out combination of Jack Nicholson and Elisha Cook Jr. The late Steve Ihnat (TIME, May 29), a cop down to his white socks and rumpled plaid shirt, is required at one point to shoot himself in the foot with his police special, an ancient bit of business that he contrives to make fresh. The hero of the film, if there is one, is Burt Reynolds, who displays an enviable sense of comic...
...Democratic ticket. At times his manner was a bit too bluff and hearty, sometimes wistful, but rarely if ever self-pitying. "For seven days in a row, I was under the greatest pressure I've ever been in my life," he told TIME'S Jess Cook with a certain satisfaction. "Being my own teacher, I give myself passing, indeed very high marks...