Word: fitzpatricks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation by TIME correspondents seemed to agree with Atlanta Hod Carrier W.C. Herd: "Something had to be done. If this holds prices down, it's bound to help." Many expressed no bitterness at the prospect of living on their current wages for 90 days. Says New York Policeman Jim Fitzpatrick, whose union has been negotiating with the city for a new contract in place of the expired one for eight months: "I think most ordinary people know that the few extra dollars they got were just being taken away by price increases." Striking Gunter David of the Newark Evening News...
...Lukas also writes of those who failed to overcome the obstacles. His Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the two worlds of Linda Fitzpatrick, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy Connecticut family who was murdered in the East Village in 1967, is included here in an expanded version. Far from being an easy exercise in playing off the grotesque obtuseness of Linda's parents against the equally grotesque facts of her pathetic death, the study achieves its drama and poignancy because of all that it leaves unsaid. A sympathetic English teacher can still describe the dead girl as looking...
...JOAN FITZPATRICK BOCK Merritt Island...
Buckley's predecessor, Howard E. Fitzpatrick, who died last April, followed the lead of the Sheriffs preceding him by appearing at all Harvard Commencements attired in a top hat, morning coat, and striped pants with a sword and scabbard at the belt...
...Fitzpatrick, it was a long-delayed victory. A journalism major at Kent State, he switched to English when the chairman of the journalism department told him he could not write and would never make it as a reporter. For a long time, it seemed that the chairman was at least half right. As a cub reporter on the Toledo Blade in 1957, Fitzpatrick freelanced a story for a competing paper. He was fired. At his next job, in Lima, Ohio, he recalls that "I was writing a column in which I said that bowling was stupid and that bowlers were...