Word: griffin
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Edward J. Griffin, deputy fire chief yesterday termed the false alarm "foolish and avoidable," adding that after one of the recent incidents, he asked University officials to provide all personnel with written instructions on how to avoid triggering smoke detectors...
...throughout this lost-and-found department there are continual instances of amazing grace. The late John Howard Griffin, terminally ill, recalls darkening his skin in order to live as a black man in the American South (the subject of his book Black Like Me, 1961). He speaks of violent beatings and physical suffering, and then discards self-pity by quoting a friend's dying words: "Ask Griffin if he can top this." A former Ku Klux Klan executive finds himself organizing workers of every hue in a North Carolina union. "People say: 'That's an impossible dream...
DIED. John Howard Griffin, 60, novelist who in 1959 used chemicals and ultraviolet light to change the pigment of his skin temporarily from white to black, then walked, bused and hitchhiked through the South and wrote about his experiences in Black Like Me; of complications arising from diabetes; in Fort Worth. His book, published in 1961, stirred consciences throughout the U.S., sold more than 1 million copies and was made into a movie...
TORONTO BLUE JAYS: The Blue Jays seem destined for last once again. Young infielders Alfredo Griffin and Danny Ainge bode well for the future. Distant future...
Former Attorney General Griffin Bell suspects it was "someone who got caught in the Watergate syndrome, a paranoiac who thought the Justice Department would just sit on the whole thing, someone who thinks no one can be trusted." The New York Times published a long set of questions and answers about Abscam, including one on why leakers leak, but didn't think it necessary to discuss why newspapers publish information that could presumably wait until formal charges are filed. Convinced that news of Abscam was getting out, the FBI hurriedly completed its last interviews on the very Saturday that...