Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into this song about The East Bound Train." ("My father is in prison/He's lost his sight, they say/ I'm going to seek his pardon/ This cold December day.") Ajemian's reporting was woven into a cover story by Staff Writer Walter Isaacson, who got out from behind his desk in Manhattan to catch Connally in action at some Northeastern whistlestops. As a native son of Louisiana and former city hall reporter for the New Orleans States-Item, Isaacson is familiar with the eccentricities of Southern politicians. "Their style," he says, "is a stimulating...
...Mankato, like many others, failed to meet the EPA's minimum emissions standards. The best diesel got 89 m.p.g., the best gasoline entry only 56. Poor old Wisconsin, Stout, apparently could not keep all that wonderful, inexpensive hydrogen from leaking out of its canister and never got going long enough to complete a road test. The disconsolate car owner makes a date with his local garage to tune up the old Impala...
...got the list and learned that money from his project was being used to pay people who had not worked on it. Some he had never heard of, others were scientists assigned to other projects. In 1975 Cohen called on top financial officers at Harvard to audit all grants in his department, but says he got an "inadequate" response. Afterward, he was told he would not receive his hoped-for reappointment to the faculty (Harvard denies that Cohen's inquisitiveness was the reason...
...headquarters of NIH, Cohen got a more sympathetic response. After an NIH audit, the agency hit Harvard for a refund of $132,000. "Most of Cohen's allegations had substance," says NIH Division Manager James Shriver. "When we completed our investigation of his activities, Harvard made restitution almost immediately." But NIH was sufficiently aroused to ask for a broader investigation by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. HEW's preliminary findings, released earlier this year, hit Cambridge like a ton of red tape: HEW auditors questioned the way Harvard accounted for 40% of $37 million in federal...
Unfortunately, he is not the sole seeker of Lonoff's attention. Lonoff's wife Hope, frantic after years of keeping a quiet house for the artist, complains that she has to catch the toast before it pops. On her husband's preoccupation with work: "I got fondled more by strangers on the rush-hour subway during two months in 1935 than I have up here in the last twenty years...