Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best choice to battle what he calls the "sophisticated and subtle" racism of the '70s. A member of one of Memphis' most prominent black families, he became both a lawyer and a minister. He practiced law in Memphis from 1949 to 1965, when Tennessee Governor Frank Clement named him a criminal-court judge; the next year he was elected to an eight-year term in his own right. At the same time, he often preached on Sundays, alternating between a church in Memphis and one in Detroit. Hooks and his wife Frances have an adopted daughter...
...seats in the by-elections, Labor whips had to muster every vote possible. Thus Labor M.P. Helene Hayman, 27, took part in voting after setting up her own private wet nursery in a room adjoining the Commons chamber. On the critical ship and aircraft bill, the barkeep, Independent Frank McGuire, 47, came into play; a supporter of the Irish Republican movement who normally backs the government on domestic issues, when he votes at all, was closely escorted through the voting lobbies by two Labor M.P.s. The crisis eased in part when former Tory Enoch Powell, who is best known...
What distinguishes all these programs is a frank and total lack of pretense. They all seem to proceed from the belief that a television series should not aspire to any greater intellectual or emotional depth than the comic books that seem to have inspired them. The dialogue is apparently borrowed from old Batman balloons. Brightly lit and crudely shot, the visual style indeed reminds one of comic art at its least sophisticated level...
...Hughes sane or not? This may never be known for certain, but old stories keep cropping up. In 1972, Robert Maheu, a top Hughes administrator who had been fired, told the Securities and Exchange Commission that Frank William Gay, the ranking Hughes insider, had approached him in the late 1960s to discuss the possibility of having Hughes declared mentally incompetent. It was precisely the fear that a judge might question his mental competence that caused Hughes to go to any length, even risking his fortune, to avoid appearing in court...
Both Cantor and Frank B. Freidel, Warren Professor of American History, said yesterday mysterious noises from pipes at both sides of the room often interrupt their classes in Sever...