Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senator Marlow Cook of Kentucky, who faced an uphill fight for reelection against popular Democratic Governor Wendell Ford. A few weeks ago, the race was felt to be lopsided in Ford's favor. The Governor had effectively linked Cook to Nixon. But now, as one local G.O.P. official, Jack Will, puts it, "People will be voting on the candidates themselves." If Cook gets a campaign visit from President Ford, it is possible that the tide could swing...
Time Magazine Reporter: I don't know if the record supports that, but I do know, and I know this for a fact, that it supports the statement that Mr. Ford gets up at sunrise every day to cook his own breakfast. As a matter of fact, last Thursday, the day when Nixon resigned, he got up at 5:30 a.m., came out in blue bathrobe, picked up his Washington Post, and went inside to cook some scrambled eggs for himself and his son Steve...
When the scandal began to be uncovered in 1973, Connally, according to the indictment, decided to cook up an alibi with Jacobsen: the pair agreed to testify under oath that although Jacobsen had offered the money to Connally, the Treasury chief had refused to take it. Whereupon, the story went, Jacobsen put the cash in a safe-deposit box in a bank in Austin. To make the alibi stick, the prosecution believes, Connally gave Jacobsen $10,000 out of his own pocket to place...
Stone to call his book on the period The Haunted Fifties. Historian Fred J. Cook is harsher: his volume is entitled The Nightmare Decade. "To the young generation of today," writes Cook, "it may seem fantastic that for a whole decade there was hardly a whisper of dissent in the land." It was not necessarily for want of courage. Public protest and massive dissent were akin to the four-minute mile: until the first demonstration, the feat was assumed to be impossible; after that, the deluge...
James R. Thompson Jr., 38, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, has done more to dismantle Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's political machine than all his predecessors combined. In less than three years he has convicted former Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, Cook County Clerk Edward Barrett, three aldermen, two police captains and more than a dozen other state and local officials, most of them Democrats. A strapping (6 ft. 6 in.) Chicago native and ex-law professor who describes himself as a "middle-of-the-road" Republican, "Big Jim" Thompson is the favorite choice of Cook County...