Word: geralds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undesirable." The FBI spied on the Texas judge who presided over the Jack Ruby trial, on the director of Central Intelligence and on the Warren Commission itself. The bureau engaged a friendly Republican Congressman and commission member to keep it posted on the closed-door sessions. His name-Gerald Ford. The FBI even lent Ford an agent's lockable briefcase so he could take secret documents on a skiing vacation...
Though a version of the law has been on the books for eleven years, Watergate and revelations of FBI and CIA misconduct led to a radical change in its use. Over Gerald Ford's veto. Congress in 1974 amended the law, which now sets deadlines for responding, bans excessive copying fees for documents, and provides that winners of Freedom of Information court cases should have their legal fees paid for by the Government. Attorney General Griffin Bell applied another spur to information seekers last May, when he warned all Government agencies that his department would not defend them...
Such security efforts notwithstanding, store owners know the Christmas rush will include a high quotient of thieves. Gerald Lauritzen, director of Southern California's Stores Protective Association, notes that 35% to 40% of the year's total loss from shoplifting occurs in the final quarter-the direct result, he says, of "increased traffic during the holidays...
Golda's cabinet, generals, personal secretary, children, everybody except her artistically minded husband Morris (Gerald Hiken), seem to have been carted to the stage direct from Mme. Tussaud's. Unlike Mme. Tussaud's waxwork historical figures, these characters do have lines to say, but the play might move a little faster if they were mute...
...exercise of local editorial autonomy results in political schizophrenia-some papers Republican, others Democratic-which the chains all defend as wholesome diversity rather than cynical moneymaking indifference at headquarters. In the 1976 election, one of Knight-Ridder's Southern papers endorsed Gerald Ford instead of Southerner Jimmy Carter, while the Detroit Free Press in Ford's home state chose Carter. On the Gannett papers-"without any guidance at all from corporate headquarters," says Neuharth-endorsements went about 60% Ford, 40% Carter. The well-managed, publicly owned Gannett papers have been described not too unfairly by a critic...