Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the house, two men lurking in nearby bushes detonated by remote control about 500 Ibs. of explosives hidden inside. The blast gouged a crater 10 ft. deep, hurled the Jaguar into the air and sent stones flying for several hundred yards. The ambassador and a secretary, Judith Cook, 25, were killed. Gravely injured were the chauffeur and Brian Cubbon, British Permanent Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, who had come from Belfast to confer with the new ambassador...
...Catholics are offended by Carter's middle-of-the-road stand on abortion. He opposes it, but refuses to back a constitutional amendment banning abortion because he believes that women have a legal right to decide for themselves. Last week about a dozen Catholic leaders, including Terence Cardinal Cook of New York and John Cardinal Cody of Chicago, wrote to protest the Democratic platform plank on abortion, which is almost identical to Carter's position...
...fish at a primitive hunting camp on Lake Elsie, Ontario. At home in Washington, the Mondales live quietly-Joan has been known to shoo guests out of the house at 11:30 p.m. -and the Senator loves to preside over backyard barbecues. "He's a very good cook," Joan says, "and sometimes he bakes bread." Does she as well? "Me?" she asks in disbelief. "Fritz did not marry me to write his speeches or to cook...
...addition to the five famous detectives and their host, there are traveling companions, the most notable of whom is Eileen Brenan, who appears as Sam Diamond's loyal but abused Girl Friday. Attending to the guests is a blind butler named Bensonmum (Alec Guinness) and a deaf-mute cook (Nancy Walker...
...five Justices struck a serious blow at the remnants of the patronage system. The decision came on a case in Chicago where the Daley machine has become one of the nation's foremost practitioners of rewarding political loyalists with public jobs. About 1,000 Republicans working in the Cook County sheriffs office had been routinely turned out after a Democrat was elected in 1970. The court conceded that such firings may be necessary for policymaking officials, but in the words of Justice Stewart the First Amendment right of free speech is violated if "a nonpolicymaking, nonconfidential government employee...