Word: elmo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ELMO'S FIRE...
Meet the Not-Quite-Ready-for-Yup-piedom Players. They are friends from college days who hang out at St. Elmo's Bar, which provides the movie with a title and a metaphor. Do the flashes of feeling they experience carry genuine heat or are they as meaningless as the flashes of light that sometimes play about ships and planes in the night...
...believe Walker was a Soviet spy for 17 years, trading in top- secret naval communications. As the magnitude of his betrayal unfolded last week, intelligence officials speculated that Walker's espionage may rank with the most damaging in U.S. history. If the charges against Walker prove true, said Admiral Elmo Zumwalt Jr., former Chief of Naval Operations, "this would represent a breach of security as serious as any I can recall...
Among businessmen, the bishops' letter evoked mixed responses. "I came away with a feeling that these are well-meaning people who really don't understand our capitalistic system," said Admiral Elmo Zumwalt Jr. (ret.), chairman of Milwaukee-based American Medical Buildings. But Roger Altman, managing director of Shearson Lehman/American Express and a self-described "serious Catholic," was sympathetic. Said he: "Our society has an obligation to the underprivileged, and the degree to which we haven't made progress in raising their living standards is enormously troubling." Observed Joseph Pichler, a Catholic who is president of Dillon...
...Elmo R. Zumwalt...