Word: feds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head coach Bob Harrison thinks his team can play with any of them, "Last year we fed those kids to the wolves with a schedule that included St. Louis, Michigan, California, and Ohio State," he said last night, "But we got some valuable experience and confidence, and this year we should be able to play with them...
Erotic Images. These are among Picasso's more evident gifts to Surrealism. But they also exemplify his astounding power to make images of sensation. In fact, his painting from 1920 onward seems increasingly to draw its power from emotion fed back into the object-sexual or not-that had provoked it. Wrote Critic John Berger: "He has been able to see and imagine more suffering in a single horse's head than many artists have found in a whole Crucifixion." His paintings approach autobiography, a vivid graph of his reactions to public issues and private relationships...
...crusading New Dealer, Stern in 1934 became the first newspaper owner to recognize the infant American Newspaper Guild-a decision that he lived to regret. He called his early support of the union a "grave mistake" after a 1946-47 Guild strike against the Record and the Camden papers. Fed up with labor's unyielding demands, Stern sold his papers, bringing a bitter end to 36 years in publishing...
...long run what is probably more important than the erroneous information the officials fed the public is the fact that they failed to deal in any meaningful way with why the two incidents occurred. The authorities at San Quentin claimed that George Jackson had been killed in an aborted escape attempt. Yet at no time did they or their supporters attempt to explain why Jackson would try to escape. Their entire treatment of the incident took Jackson's motivation as a given--as not susceptible to change nor of any particular consequence...
...Currency Committee, last week at a subcommittee hearing accused the Federal Reserve Board of spending as much as $588,200 on questionable or frivolous items. Examples: $2,514.11 on a picnic with prizes at the Buffalo branch, $50 for a parking fine and towing charge for a New York Fed official, $20.90 for babysitting charges so that a New York member and his wife could attend two dinners. In addition, Patman was disturbed by the Fed's "Thrift" club, in which the system has contributed almost $2,000,000 annually to a kind of mutual-fund program for employees...