Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, the shallowness lurking behind "Golden Years" and "Stay" finally catches up with Bowie on the last cut, "Wild As The Wind," which has to be one of the most vacuous numbers he has ever penned. Even Bowie's new idol, Frank Sinatra, might think twice before crooning, "For we're creatures of the wind/Wild as the wind? I hear the sound of mandolins..." Let's pray it doesn't become his swan song...
They could indeed. The new revelations, forced out by a Senate subcommittee headed by Idaho Democrat Frank Church, named those in high places who got some of the $22 million to $24 million that Lockheed Aircraft Corp. has said it paid to spur sales of its aircraft overseas. The major repercussions...
Subcommittee Chairman Senator Frank Moss, a Democrat from Utah, agrees that these and other measures are urgently needed. Says he: "This is a horrible commentary on our medical delivery system. If this many weaknesses show up in Medicaid, the rip-off will be infinitely larger with national health insurance...
...angel of extermination," as Anne Frank called Mengele in her diary, was not arrested after the war. He lived openly in Bavaria until 1951, when pressure to bring him to justice forced his retreat to the havens of Argentina and Paraguay. Only when Israeli agents came hunting did he flee to the cover of a German settlement in the Paraguayan jungle. Presumably he is still there, drinking Chilean Riesling and reminiscing about the Third Reich...
...After months of resisting the demands of students and faculty, Frank L. Hereford Jr., president of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, yielded last week. He resigned his membership in the nearby Farmington Country Club, an institution that denies admission to blacks. Hereford stated that he had hoped to change the club's restrictive practices by retaining his membership and working from within. Even when Farmington members voted overwhelmingly to uphold the club's racial rules (TIME, Feb. 9), Hereford hung on, hoping that the Farmington board of directors would reject the vote. But after the board failed...