Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Kissinger was important for another reason. It typified the way in which congressional committees investigating the U.S. intelligence community have diverted themselves from their objective: to find methods to better watch over the CIA, FBI and similar agencies. Both the House committee and its Senate counterpart headed by Frank Church have been on the job since early this year, and both have spent too much time battling the Administration or grabbing for headlines by concentrating on flashy issues. One motive: peppery and aggressive Pike yearns to run for the Senate in 1976, and Church may well announce his candidacy...
...PHILADELPHIA: There were no surprises as Mayor Frank Rizzo rolled to an easy victory, toppling two opponents in his reelection path...
...Frank Cardullo, who owns the Wursthaus, agrees. His part of the building, he says, used to be an English colonial home and goes back 150, 160, 175 years. Why change it? Cardullo works upstairs in the colonial home part, above the Wursthaus and likes it. The other two parts are a brick addition built in 1926 and an older frame part in the middle, neither of which Cardullo gets up to much. "There's Quinn up there, a real estate man," he says. "And a photographer. Let's see, a beauty shop; a secreterial school, used...
...some analysts as the most financially shaky of all U.S. air carriers. Last week it reported a third-quarter loss of $21.4 million ($17.8 million in September alone), v. a profit of $7.6 million in the comparable period of 1974. Simultaneously, it chose a new pilot: former Astronaut Frank Borman, one of the three who read from the Book of Genesis on Christmas Eve, 1968 as their capsule orbited the moon. Borman, 47, joined Eastern as a vice president in 1970; he became president last May and now takes the title of chief executive from Floyd D. Hall...
That is the essential theme of Lampost Reunion by Louis La Russo II, and it is a first play of some consequence. The reunion is in a bar. The hero is Fred Santoro (Gabriel Dell), whose career and fame resemble Frank Sinatra's. He and his henchman (George Pollock) drift into a haunt that Santoro shared with a gang of cronies (mostly Hoboken, N.J., Italian-Americans) some 20 years before...