Word: grand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grand Bourgeoisie. At the Exeter Theater, daily...
...money I'd come back to New York and take whatever job I could, editing, sound, until I got enough to go back," she says. Her uncle is Murray Burnett, who wrote a play called Rick's Place, which later became Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart, and earning Burnett the grand sum of $8,000. "Later he wrote a book called Hickory Stick, didn't copyright it, and they made it into Blackboard Jungle. He didn't get a penny for it." Kopple shakes her head...
Last week, the first felony indictment of an agent in the bureau's 69-year history was returned by a New York City grand jury. John J. Kearney, 55, a retired FBI special-unit supervisor, was named on five counts of illegal wiretapping, conspiracy and intercepting mail in the course of a futile hunt for Weather Underground terrorists between 1970 and 1972. Additional indictments of FBI officials, possibly reaching as high as the assistant director level, are expected soon. The message: Violations of the law, even in the name of law enforcement, are no longer to be automatically tolerated...
...Goldsmith founded Caven-ham Ltd. which, through canny acquisitions, has become Europe's third largest (after Unilever and Nestlé) food processor. Extending his empire, he then purchased Grand Union, the U.S. supermarket chain. Two years ago, he became chairman of Slater, Walker Securities Ltd. when his friend Jim Slater, because of some freewheeling deals in the Far East, was forced to resign-driving one of the hottest investment companies of the 1960s to near collapse...
Arnason, a native of Grand Forks, N.D., said he has been running up to 75 miles a week to prepare for today. A pole-vaulter who discovered the Boston Marathon his freshman year, Arnason went back West to qualify--at the Paavo Nurmi Marathon last August (his time: 2:57). Like Kraus, Arnason wants to bring his time down about ten minutes or so, into...