Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fantasia of fountains adorns Downtown, U.S.A...
...drove Spiro Agnew, Mandel's predecessor as Governor, from the vice presidency. A total of seven Maryland officials have been convicted in federal prosecutions since 1973. In early August, former Congressman Edward A. Garmatz was indicted for bribe taking; Mandel's trial, ironically enough, was held in downtown Baltimore's new Edward A. Garmatz Federal Court Building...
...Lavrenti Beria, the Soviet security chief who rose to power under Stalin and was later executed. But Wang surely has the potential. From his tightly guarded headquarters in Fragrant Hill Park, a sprawling, tree-lined compound of antenna-covered villas and underground facilities about a half-hour drive from downtown Peking, Wang runs the Chinese equivalents of the U.S.'s FBI, Secret Service and CIA. His path to Fragrant Hill began early in the 1930s when, as a country-boy corporal in the Communist forces fighting the Nationalist regime, he became Mao's personal bodyguard. He quickly rose...
Among other things, he says, the executives entertained politicians on hunting expeditions at Bell resorts in rural Texas gave them credit cards to make free long-listance calls-and, in one case, staged a three-day orgy at the TraveLodge in downtown San Antonio, where some Bell women employees became party girls Ashley also accused the company of giving top executives a $1,000 raise on the understanding that it was to be donated in $50 installments to a political slush fund. The pot was used for contributions to local and state officials friendly to Bell rate increases. Ward...
Without error Christianity Today (circ. 142,000) was founded in 1956 by Billy Graham and friends in order to provide much-needed intellectual guidance for Evangelical Protestants. The magazine's urbane image suffered this year when it moved from downtown Washington, D.C., to Carol Stream, Ill., in part to be closer to the conservative Protestant heartland. Nonetheless, it has just chosen a new editor, Kenneth S. Kantzer, who comes equipped with a Harvard Ph.D. Says he: "Great ideas don't have to be incomprehensible...