Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...familiar problem. FBI Director Clarence Kelley was due to step down by the end of 1977, but Carter and Bell had no replacement in sight; they were not happy with the five candidates proposed by a special committee. "My God," sighed Bell, "I still wish we could get ole Frank Johnson to take...
...matter of fact, Bell, to his pleased astonishment, had already received a signal from U.S. District Judge Frank Minis Johnson Jr. (TIME cover, May 12, 1967). One of Bell's aides, a former Johnson law clerk named Frances M. ("Kelly") Green, had informed the Attorney General that Johnson was having "second thoughts"-he was now convinced he had made a mistake in turning down the offer of the FBI post eight months ago. Bell quickly arranged a clandestine rendezvous with Johnson last week in the dining room at the Newnan, Ga., Holiday Inn. "Nobody recognized either...
...signal increased U.S. concern for the long-neglected area. At the same time, Assistant Secretary of State Terence Todman and Patricia Derian, State's Coordinator for Human Rights, set out on separate South American missions, while State Department Counselor Matthew Nimetz went to Mexico City. Meanwhile, Senator Frank Church, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, accepted a longstanding invitation from Premier Fidel Castro to visit Cuba...
...down aisles crowded with tables of cards-some heaped in shoe boxes, others displayed in expensive leather briefcases. The hardcore collectors adjourn to private rooms where big deals among three or more people are negotiated during all-night poker games. "When the hobby started, it was all trading," says Frank Nagy, a 54-year-old Detroit mechanic who in 40 years of collecting has amassed over a million cards. "Now the only way to get the old stuff...
...television is that everyone talks so much," "The first law of football is that when the teams line up, you go to the play-by-play man"); yet it is he who stuffed the Monday night booth with three garrulous commentators, with only the play-by-play man, Frank Gifford, concentrating on the game, straining to interrupt Cosell's anecdotes, disputatious opinions and constant hype of himself and of coming ABC promotions. Arledge feels no need to take a viewers' survey of the matter: "Everybody hates Cosell. But he's a catalyst and makes stars...