Word: geri
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radio band that would not interfere with normal voice communications. Some of the popular tunes, like Fly Me to the Moon, seemed more appropriate for the Apollo program, others for a teen-age hangout. But later in the week, largely at the urging of NASA Secretary Geri Ann Vanderoef, the Kraft Music Hall, as it was called in honor of Flight Director Chris Kraft (TIME cover, Aug. 27), took on an elevated tone with selections from Bach...
Fein asked Gloria to get a friend to help. "Why call a friend?" she demanded. "I'm strong." "But Gloria," protested Fein, "the trunk is very heavy." Gloria called two friends-Geri Boxer, 22, who described herself as a copywriter with a psychology degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and David Broudy, 32, a onetime cabbie and hairdresser. Gloria then sent Fein home "because he was in pretty bad shape," drove to the Harlem River with the others and pushed the trunk in. "There was a thump and a splash," she said. When the body surfaced, there was an even...
...Should Say Not!" Gloria's two friends corroborated parts of her story but not all of it. Geri Boxer, who said she became friendly with Gloria because she is "accomplished in a lot of respects a college girl wouldn't be," said she helped dump the trunk but did not know what was in it. Broudy said Fein told him that someone else had shot the bookie...
...born simply Abubakar, the child of Yakubu, a minor official in the regime of the emir of Bauchi. (According to northern custom, he later added to his given name that of his village-Tafawa Balewa.) Though Abubakar was not of the mighty Fulani-his family belonged to the Geri tribe-his father's position won him the rare privilege of schooling in a region almost totally illiterate. After secondary school he was even able to get into Katsina Teachers' Training College, normally open only to sons of the northern feudal elite...