Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he gave Connally the $10,000 in two $5,000 installments in 1971 on behalf of Associated Milk Producers, Inc., the nation's largest dairy cooperative and a big contributor to Nixon's 1972 campaign. When it appeared that federal investigators were about to discover the gift, Jacobsen said, the pair agreed to formulate a false story that the money had remained in Jacobsen's safe-deposit box in an Austin, Texas, bank. On Oct. 29, 1973, said Jacobsen, Connally gave him $10,000 back, which Jacobsen placed in the safe-deposit...
...jovial 300-pounder with a gift for the grandiloquent phrase so esteemed in the South, Jackson, 37, appeared to have the qualities to keep Atlanta growing and prospering in harmony. But he has had a falling out with some portions of the Atlanta establishment-a group of civic-minded businessmen whose power has waned over recent years. The Atlanta Constitution, long known for its moderate liberalism on race, recently ran a seven-part all-out attack on the mayor. And some whites feel that he has now firmly tilted toward the city's black constituency. "In the white community...
...most dance-like arias have the most tragic texts, and Sills pulled off a real feat in making these passages sound agitated rather than light-hearted. If her voice now shows occasional signs of stram and her highest notes are slightly pinched, it makes no difference: Sills's special gift isn't perfection, but the perfect communication...
...their goal to formulate plans for changing our system to one that will better meet the crises we face. Its political scientists can press for action in Congress. Its scientists can do the basic research on more efficient ways of producing and storing food. Its writers can use their gift to give voices to those who have no voices. As an institution, Harvard can make it an official policy to cut down its consumption of food, especially meat, and to consume less in other ways that it sees...
...commercial and rides in a 1974 Plymouth with one plainclothesman. He vows never to move into the $1.3 million Governor's mansion that was started by his predecessor. Instead, he lives in a modest Sacramento apartment and pays the $250-a-month rent out of his own pocket. Gifts are invariably returned to the sender: a gold pass to Disneyland, a copy of The Tale of Peter Rabbit in Latin. Brown even rejected a volume commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Los Angeles Music Center, a gift from Buff Chandler, matriarch of the politically powerful family that publishes...