Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every year, according to the U.S. Justice Department, the Philadelphia police shoot an average of 75 people, which contributes heavily to the force's image as one of the toughest in the nation. This reputation is a source of pride to Mayor Frank Rizzo, who was a cop for 28 years. On a visit to Italy in 1977, he declared that the best way to deal with criminals is "spacco il capo," which can be loosely translated as "break heads...
...DIED. Frank Peavey Heffelfinger, 81, former chairman of Peavey Co., a century-old Minneapolis grain firm; in Minneapolis. He spent his career in the family business but took time out to serve as regional director of the War Production Board under Franklin Roosevelt and as finance chairman of Dwight Eisenhower's Republican National Committee...
...tempest caused yacht racing's worst catastrophe. Eighteen people, including three sailors not officially entered in the race, were killed and scores injured. Among the dead were three Americans who had been living in Britain: Frank H. Ferris, 61, Robert H. Robie, 63, and David Dicks, 31. Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath managed to sail into Plymouth unaided, although bruised and exhausted. Said he: "It was the worst experience I have ever had." Twenty-three yachts were sunk or abandoned and uncounted others crippled; preliminary estimates put the damage at $4.5 million or more...
...spotted survivors in the water, the choppers had to drop and rise like yo-yos, trying to get in synchronization with the giant waves. The boats' tall masts made it impossible to pluck yachtsmen from the decks. "The idea of jumping into those huge seas was appalling," said Frank Worley, a crewman on Camargue. In the end, we were all pushed in by the skipper...
This year the Journal expects to move into the black for the first time. "We've got more than an 85% renewal rate and our circulation is growing," boasts Editor Richard Frank. But the warm breeze of success should not be misconstrued as a prevailing wind for making the magazine, perish the thought, popular. Says Sullivan very firmly: "We are definitely not thinking that...