Word: franked
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...ROAR faction was defeated by a more responsible group. The person who defeated ROAR's effort to take control of the council was Ms. DeFronzo, who was elected chairperson of the council over the ROAR candidate, and Congressman Udall is proud to have her on his slate. Barney Frank State Rep., 5th District
...party will pick up another candidate: Idaho's Frank Church, 51, who has won splashy headlines as chairman of the Senate committee investigating U.S. intelligence agencies. He plans to announce in early March. Last week his campaign committee sent flyers to 35,000 Democrats in an attempt to stop Hubert Humphrey, the undeclared possible compromise candidate. Said the message in part: "Democrats must not turn backward . . . The American people won't accept a warmed-over New Deal or a rerun of the Great Society...
...issue has become how to keep secrets rather than how to preserve freedom," said Idaho Democrat Frank Church, the disheartened chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Though exaggerated, Church's complaint reflected the growing gloom in Congress over the Senate and House investigations of the CIA, FBI and other U.S. undercover agencies. The probe has been discredited by the inability of many Congressmen and their staffers to keep a secret. Result: there is as much worry over leaks as there is over the abuses that were leaked...
...Smith Goes to Washington. Pauline Kael once asked whether Frank Capra had an honest bone in his body. Even hearing the question is a crusher, for if Capra is a calculating manipulator, then who is left? To be sure, he was sly behind the camera: Graham Greene wrote that he was the best propagandist since Eisentstein. Greene's proof lay in Capra's exposition of Edward Arnold in his pictures. Hardly anyone has ever done justice to the memory of Arnold, Capra's bloated symbol of all that was wrong with America in three consecutive celebrations of his defeat...
...Apple Tree. A Sheldon Harnick-Jerry Bok adaptation of short stories by Mark Twain, Jules Feiffer and Frank ("The Lady and the Tiger") Stockton, performed in a cabaret setting with pre-and post-curtain entertainment. Presented by the Hubs Pub Theatre at the Ramada Inn, 1234 Soldier's Field Road. Performances Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, at 8 p.m., through March 2. Ticket...