Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pacifist, but in context is saying simply that mob warfare is a poor atmosphere in which to conduct the business of gambing and numbers-running. Upon his release from prison, "He tried to find a way back in/To the life he'd left behind," but this is not Frank Sinatra coming back to Brooklyn after the service, looking for his finance and his old crowd: Joey, Joey, what made them want to come and blow you away?" moan Dylan and Emmylou Harris in the chorus. Safe to assume it had something to do with the fact that he arranged...
Luxembourg's spooks-like the CIA-are currently under fire in the grand duchy's parliament, and may soon be put under an oversight committee in the legislature. Socialist Jean Gremling, who might be called Luxembourg's Frank Church, argues that "we don't want to be part of the silent war between secret service organizations here." That, of course, is just one more confirmation that the silent war in the grand duchy is uncomfortably real...
Many colleges, in turn, are looking suspiciously at the letters that come in. Harold Doughty, director of admissions at New York University, notes that "recommendations are more bland, less reliable and less frank." Says Richard Lyman, president of Stanford University: "Letters of recommendation, one suspects, have long been subject to a debasement of the coinage. And how-the drive to make them freely available to the persons about whom they are written seems perfectly designed to administer the coup...
Berg, once president of the student body at Frank Cox High School in Virginia Beach, Va., was an average student at the academy and dated girls frequently. Last July, after the Navy heard reports about his sexual life and began an investigation, Berg resigned and was transferred from the Sixth Fleet flagship Little Rock to Norfolk Naval Base for discharge. Meanwhile, he read of the struggle by Air Force Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich (TIME, June 9) to challenge the armed services' ban on homosexuals. Berg too decided to fight. He had the full support of his family, including...
...television spectators will benefit from the 45 cameras positioned throughout the area. ABC, which paid about $8 million for broadcast rights, will put Sportscasters Curt Gowdy, Jim McKay and Frank Gifford plus Pierre Salinger behind microphones...