Word: franks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if Rice wanted to say something controversial he couldn't. Obviously he can't give frank opinions about the other members of his team, or the management, particularly when he is a rookie. And a "public" statement (suppose he wanted to say something about racism in Boston) would be adroitly buried by the press as extraneous. When Red Sox pitcher Bill Lee called Judge Garrity the only man in this town with any guts, the paper gave the statement virtually no play, and a columnist quickly huffed and puffed about how baseball and social criticism...
...1950s the CIA began experimenting with saxitoxin at Fort Detrick, Md., where it also carried out the notorious LSD experiments that led to, among other things, the long hushed-up death of Biochemist Frank Olson (TIME, July 21). Researchers took contaminated butter clams and distilled the poison from them through a costly process. According to sources close to Church's panel, the CIA used saxitoxin in suicide pills for its own agents (U2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers had one, but chose to pass it up) and had it on hand to eliminate troublesome guard dogs when breaking into embassies...
Four hundred dollars for a hand-crafted doorknob? It did seem sort of funny for a law-and-order mayor like Philadelphia's Mayor Frank Rizzo, whose official salary is $434 a week. But according to a series of stories in the Philadelphia Daily News, he has invested more than $400,000 in a swank new home in the Chestnut Hill section-including $20,000 for a three-car garage, $30,000 for stonework and $7,000 for a patio. "These are pure and simple political charges made by a newspaper that blatantly seeks to influence the outcome...
Hardly a bobby-soxer could be found, but the silk-stocking crowd showed up in force as Crooner Frank Sinatra, 59, Singer Ella Fitzgerald, 57, and Bandleader Count Basie, 71, took to the stage of Manhattan's Uris Theater. Sinatra sounded fuller of voice than he has in years, Ella delivered her love songs like a woman who realizes she looks more like a schoolmarm than a possible vamp, and the Count, how roly-poly in old age, played only three numbers with his band, which was a shame. But their fans have not faded away. The opening-night...
...Guarantee. The Avedon show is highly personal and varied. It includes a 1949 portrait only 8 in. square of a smiling, unshaven, squinting Frank Lloyd Wright, a gigantic group portrait of the Chicago Seven, and a photo of a heavily made-up transvestite with a ballerina's tutu and a hairy chest...