Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...season's troubles started when Frank Collin, self-styled Fuhrer of a tiny Chicago-based Nazi splinter group called the National Socialist Party of America, announced plans for a May 1 parade through Skokie, a heavily Jewish suburb north of Chicago. Some 7,000 survivors of World War II Nazi concentration camps live in the village. Skokie authorities swiftly banned the demonstration, and militant Jewish Defense League spokesmen promised to keep the Nazi marchers out with force...
...last year's Car Wash, has a loose, uninsistent style that gives the picture the quality of a yarn being retold on someone's back porch. The film will put many in mind of Rocky, but its real antecedents are in the '30s, when directors like Frank Capra were giving us inspiring little slices of life about ordinary people accomplishing extraordi- nary things when their own determination was sustained by good friends and tolerant family. There is not a more likable movie currently on view than Greased Lightning...
...racketeers connected with the Teamsters Union. The purpose behind the largesse had nothing to do with Watergate. Instead, according to a secret FBI report, the $1 million was intended as a payoff for the Administration's cooperation in preventing Jimmy Hoffa from wresting the union presidency from Frank Fitzsimmons, a staunch Nixon supporter. Nixon had commuted Hoffa's 13-year prison sentence for jury tampering and mail fraud in December 1971, with the proviso that he have nothing to do with running the union until March 1980, when his sentence would have expired. But Hoffa persisted in trying...
...that was all too emphatically affirmed by looters in blacked-out New York City last week-has also been endorsed by a Boston federal judge, no less. When Jane Benduzek, 40, admitted embezzling $84,958 from Boston's South Shore National Bank, where she was a teller, Judge Frank Murray was told that she had felt "entitled" to all that loot. She used much of it to help right such "wrongs'" as the financial setbacks suffered by her brother, who has seven children, and her father, whose pension had evaporated when the milk company he worked for went...
...pause for a commercial. Then I realize I can't." Come fall, Cavett will switch back to TV and a new, five-night-a-week talk show on public television. He hopes to feature a mixture of literary figures like Saul Bellow and show business stars like Frank Sinatra. Says he: "Greta Garbo is very anxious to be on my show. But I haven't returned her calls...