Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fiscal Specialist George Bookman. Chicago's Jon Rinehart canvassed Maine, Chicago's Ed Reingold poked into musty Massachusetts court records, Boston's Ken Froslid was in New Hampshire, and Stringer Correspondent Bill Kearns filed from Vermont. For the result of their coverage of Goldfine's fast-shuffling financial affairs, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Goldfine Pressagents Forgot...
...details of shadowy business and political connections (see box next page). Settling back in the witness chair for his second week before House investigators, Goldfine played to the gallery, shouted give-'em-hell answers when provoked, slipped and dodged among questions, refused to discuss most of his fast-shuffle business affairs-and came perilously close to a contempt citation. During the committee give-and-take, Goldfine...
...fast-running stable of big and little politicians who are indebted to him-and who rarely fail to come to his aid when he needs help...
What awaits the summer student as he groggily stifles the alarm and stumbles out of bed? His stomach groans in protest of its fourteen hour fast. Food . . . must get something...
...main argument for keeping the act on the books is that defense equipment has become so complex, and changes so fast, that past production and cost experience are not enough to forecast and avoid exorbitant profits. The Government, say renegotiation advocates, needs a watchdog agency to take a long legal second look at every major defense contract. While contractors go along with this, they argue that renegotiation decisions are so capricious that what are considered normal profits for one contractor are called excessive for another...