Word: cooks
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...Senator to national attention, but it will be of no use in the big, delegate-rich states to which the contest is now shifting. "There are more people who vote in my congressional district than vote in the whole of New Hampshire," says Edward Vrdolyak, chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party. "Illinois is an election?New Hampshire is a media event...
Officials at the Cook County state's attorney's office, which paid for McLaughlin's relocation, say the incident was simply a robbery (McLaughlin's attackers did take his watch). "There is absolutely nothing to indicate these three men knew who their victim was," says Assistant State's Attorney John Armellino. "We are limited by law as to what we can do for a witness," says Prosecutor Frank DeBoni, "and right now we do not think this man is in imminent danger...
Models earn $70 to $125 an hour, according to Jennet R. Cook, assistant director of The Model's Group, a local modeling agency. However, many of a model's hours go unpaid...
...Britain and, with less than $500 in his treasury, proclaimed himself leader of the Free French forces. Most of his countrymen-including 90% of the 2,000 French soldiers who had been evacuated from Dunkirk-ignored him, remaining loyal to the Vichy regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain. Cook summarizes De Gaulle's monumental presumption: "A marshal of France and head of government had ordered French soldiers to lay down their arms before the enemy. A brigadier general virtually unknown outside military circles was refusing to obey, and compounding this disobedience by calling upon others to join...
...gave France its nuclear force de frappe and blocked Britain's entry into the Common Market To many countrymen, he was merely demanding the respect a great nation deserved. To others, he was being thin-skinned and dictatorial. Indeed in ten years after De Gaulle returned to power, Cook reports, his government obtained 350 convictions under an old law against "insulting the head of state," up from three in the preceding 14 years. De Gaulle's Sun King tendency to equate himself with France's destiny led to his undoing. After the student and worker protests...