Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason to sing: the elated mayor was celebrating his re-election and emergence as Chicago's most dominant political figure since the late Mayor Richard J. Daley. Washington took 53.5% of the vote last week to trounce his archenemy, former Alderman Edward Vrdolyak (42.2%), and Republican Donald Haider (4.3%). Cook County Assessor Thomas C. Hynes withdrew from the race 36 hours before the polls opened...
Pippert's background includes extensive assignments covering both domestic and foreign politics, including what he suggests is an inordinate number of sensitive stories. He cites his coverage of the plight of the Sioux Indians in South Dakota and the last two executions at Chicago's Cook County jail as formative experiences...
...drugstores, the familiar white boxes say Johnson & Johnson. But in court the ampersand was changed to versus, and the aim was not to relieve pain but to exacerbate it. One Johnson was Barbara ("Basia"), nee Piasecka, the Polish-born cook-chambermaid who became the third wife of J. Seward Johnson, heir to the pharmaceutical fortune. At the time of their marriage in 1971, he was 76, she was 34. The other Johnson signified J. Seward's six litigious children from his two previous marriages, excised from the old man's will shortly before his death...
...Marine House cook, known only as Galina, also made an impression. She allegedly seduced Corporal Arnold Bracy, 21, into working with Lonetree. One American woman in Moscow recalls a Marine telling her "how kind Galina was to them, how thoughtful she was. She went out of her way to teach them Russian and tell them good places to go in Moscow." A former Soviet embassy employee said that Galina was "very, very good-looking" and once complained to a senior U.S. official that "the Marines were behaving rudely and making improper suggestions" to her. (See pictures of U.S. Marines...
...operative known as Aleksei Yefimov. The scandal began to unfold when Lonetree, feeling pressure from the Soviets, surrendered to U.S. authorities in Vienna last December. Bracy, a native of Queens, N.Y., is said to have had a sexual relationship with one of the embassy's Soviet staff, a cook. Both of the women who became involved with the Marines were attractive; it is well known that the KGB uses such women -- "swallows," in the trade -- to lure contacts. "We're not talking about bag ladies here," said a White House aide...