Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grand-jury presentment, suppressed since April, was at last made public. It charged that Daley's heir apparent, Cook County State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan, had conspired to obstruct justice by covering up for the police and interfering with the defense of seven surviving Panthers accused of attempted murder. Indicted on the same charges were Hanrahan's assistant, who planned the raid, the eight policemen who entered the Panther pad and four other cops who subsequently became involved in the investigation. Police Superintendent James Conlisk was named as a coconspirator, but was not indicted...
...tribesmen from Western Papua were haled into a Port Moresby court where they were charged with improperly and indecently interfering with a corpse. A fellow villager had been killed in a family feud, and they had volunteered to dispose of the remains. Their method: to cut up the body, cook it in a well-thickened stew...
...Philadelphia Veterans Stadium. The stadium has parking for 12,000, wall-to-wall artificial turf, escalators, theater-type seats, air-conditioned boxes and usherettes called the Hot Pants Patrol. It has not just one but two exploding scoreboards that can do everything but cook the hot dogs. The big spectacular is a routine done by Philadelphia Phil and Phillis, two 25-ft.-high statues in colonial dress mounted at press-box level. When a Philly hits a home run, Phil strokes an animated ball, which strikes an animated Liberty Bell, which lights up along the crack, and the ball then...
...never been enthused about a Lockheed bill. I still say that now." Yet when Kentucky's Marlow Cook made that statement last week, he had just cast the vote that broke a 48-48 tie in the Senate and saved Lockheed Aircraft Corp. from financial collapse...
...Cook's ambivalence toward a $250 million loan guarantee for the aerospace giant was widely shared on Capitol Hill and contributed to considerable confusion in the lines of battle. Such conservative Republicans as Barry Goldwater and James Buckley, who normally support the Nixon Administration on important questions, opposed the bill lest the rules of free enterprise be violated. Such liberal Democrats as Alan Cranston and Hubert Humphrey, who would otherwise oppose a government handout to big business, supported the bill out of solidarity with organized labor. In the absence of clear-cut doctrinal guidelines, the bill-which had narrowly...