Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there around the old molded theater. The orchestra strikes up the overture. A member of the audience shoots up out of his chair, raining champagne from his glass, delighted by the first bar of music. "It's excellent!" he tells the seated. "An excellent score! Excellent! where's Frank? Getting sick already? Excellent...
National averages are held down by lower costs in the nation's warmer areas, and conceal what aghast homeowners in places hit hardest by the Big Freeze discover when they open their latest statement from the local utility. Frank Joseph, editor of a Washington oil trade journal, saw his January bill more than double, to $161. Chicagoan Louisa McPharlin shelled out $328 for oil heating and had to forgo other expenditures, "like decorating the house." Roger Young, a 31-year-old New York City securities analyst, got a $320 January bill from Consolidated Edison for his six-bedroom Westchester...
Before long, everyone knew Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt, who had grown up around L.A. Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Stephen Stills lived near the top of Laurel Canyon, Frank Zappa in an old Tom Mix house a short walk away. Browne and Frey and Henley had Echo Park apartments. Linda was in Ocean Park. Jim Morrison of the Doors was the most successful musician of the crew, and the hardest to locate, since he often slept on the beach near Venice...
...sense, this is a dual biography. Tony Hiss is as frank about his own life as he is his father's. He displays what seems to be a characteristic sense of humor; informing us, for example, that the infamous rug Whittaker Chambers alleges he gave Alger Hiss as payment from the Russians is now his prize possession. There are his own bad times too--he had to learn how to adjust to an overconcerned mother and a father in prison as well as the normal challenges of adolescence. Like his father, though, Tony Hiss says he is now a happy...
With 1:14 left in Saturday night's basketball game and the Crimson storming back from an 18-point deficit, Gary Ackerman and Dave Rogers collided while going for a loose ball and Princeton forward Frank Sowinski took it downcourt to ice the Tigers' 59-49 victory...