Word: earls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...players in Nugan Hand and other concerns show a flow of operatives between intelligence entitities and "the private sector." Lists of associates of Frank Nugan, scion of one of Australia's leading families, read like a Who's Who for the top reaches of the U.S. military. Admiral Earl Yates presided over Nugan Hand; General LeRoy Manor, former U.S. Government liason to Philippine President Macros, ran the Philippine Office; General Edwin F. Black, intimate of CIA bosses Allen Dulles and Richard Helms, ran the bank's Hawaii office...
...used to be Earl Grey and china dolls in mid-afternoon. Now it's capuccino and conversation, midnight at Cafe Algiers...
...order. I usually get tea--Earl Grey with milk and honey. But tonight demands coffee, strong and dark. With only a little cream. It's psychological, not the caffeine. The cups at Pamplona are heavy, my energy is absorbed in the act of drinking. Our conversation is frantic, fueled by nervous energy and lack of sleep...
...covering Earl Long's last race for Governor, the great A.J. Liebling wrote, "Politics is to the conversation of Louisiana what horse racing is to England's. In London, anyone from the Queen to a dustman will talk horses; in Louisiana, anyone from a society woman to a bellhop will talk + politics. Louisiana politics is of an intensity and complexity that are matched, in my experience, only in the republic of Lebanon." 1959 was the year Sam was working for Jimmie Davis, who wrote You Are My Sunshine and whose motto was "I Never Done Nobody No Harm...
Certainly the Pope has lost little of his personal impact. "People seem touched, enriched in some intangible way by the Pope's presence," observed Bishop James Malone of Youngstown, Ohio. One of the AIDS patients in the San Francisco congregation, Earl McLeod, thought that the gay demonstrators outside would have felt differently had they seen John Paul close up. "If they had heard what I heard," he said, "they would not be protesting...