Word: franks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Four of Hunt's co-conspirators -Miamians Bernard Barker, Virgilio Gonzalez, Eugenic Martinez and Frank Sturgis-found another way to make money out of Watergate. They sued Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election committee for $2 million, claiming that Hunt and other Nixon associates had "completely duped" them into thinking that the break-in was made to protect national security. The committee settled the suit for $200,000, and the Miamians declared themselves vindicated...
Many went back to their old careers: former HEW Secretary David Mathews as president of the University of Alabama; former Deputy Pentagon Chief William Clements as chairman of Sedco Inc., an oil well-drilling firm in Dallas; and former Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb as head of Shearson Hayden Stone's investment banking department in New York City. Says Zarb: "You always miss people, old friends, old places. But it took me about ten minutes to get adjusted...
...glorious performance also put in proper perspective the success of flash-in-the-pans like Bruce Lietzke, Tom Purtzer, former NCAA champ Curtis Strange, and Fuzzy Zoeller, who finished third at Inverrary. The latter's real name is Frank Urwin Zoeller but because of his poor penmanship, he took to signing his autograph F.U.Z. and the nickname stuck...
...also makes flexible meal plans difficult. If such plans were offered (say, a choice of taking 10, 15, or 20 meals a week), the smaller number of students who would stay on full board would cause some dining rooms to shut down, at least for part of the week, Frank J. Weissbecker, director of Food Services, says. Or, as Norman Cleveland, director of Food Services at Brown, puts it, an optional system like Brown's would kill the House system if put into effect at Harvard...
...them replaced by strikebreakers and illegal aliens, but even the strikebreakers went out on strike, along with thousands of other workers from other ranches. They were met with intimidation, mass arrests, and violent incidents. AFL-CIO President George Meany, outraged at the union-busting tactics of Teamster President Frank Fitzsimmons, authorized $1.6 million from AFL-CIO members to help the affiliated UFW pay its members strike benefits to stay alive...