Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the wives are totally untouched by the violence that pervades their husbands' lives. Not Jeanne Randazzo. Her husband Frank and two other men were shot to death last summer in the basement of the Randazzos' modest home on the east side of Detroit. The gunman, a government informer named Ernie Kanakis, was acquitted on the ground of self-defense; he told a jury that the others had tried to kill him with ice picks...
...night Frank was killed, he said, 'Don't cook, we'll go out to dinner.' He took a shower like he always did, and we went to dinner with my son and daughter. After dinner, about 8:45 p.m., Frank said he had to see someone who was buying our '74 Cadillac. He said to wait for him at the Golden Coach Restaurant. When he didn't come back by 10 p.m., my son said, 'If I know Dad, he fell asleep in front...
...Randazzo parlor, red and white checkered bows brighten dried-flower arrangements left over from Frank Randazzo's funeral. "We were married 37 years," says Mrs. Randazzo, wiping tears from behind black-rimmed glasses. "Before you know it, it's goodbye...
WATERGATE LEAK. In the 19th century U.S. Supreme Court Justices talked openly about impending decisions, but in recent years the court has shrouded its decision-making process with an almost impenetrable secrecy. The purpose, its members say, is to encourage a frank and free interchange of ideas. Even staff members are barred from the Justices' conferences. So there was considerable embarrassment inside the pillared courthouse after National Public Radio Correspondent Nina Totenberg, 33, revealed that the court had tentatively decided, 5 to 3, to reject Watergate cover-up-conviction petitions filed by John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman and John Mitchell...
...astonishingly versatile English director Frank Dunlop has maintained an admirably sane balance between the ironic lightness of Chekhov's comedy and the Stygian strain of his pathos. For the subtlest of comic relief, Dunlop could not have wished for anything better than that provided by Barnard Hughes as a compassionate, sodden and cheerily nihilistic regimental doctor. In serving Chekhov with unswerving fidelity, BAM adds another medal of honor to its growing collection...