Word: grocers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insists that she is not indifferent to the common people, however. "I am a grocer's daughter," she says. "I served behind the counter, and there was no money for treats. I never went to a dance until the university." She went to a state school, won a scholarship to Oxford, became a research chemist, then switched to the law, specializing in tax cases. She entered Parliament in 1959 and was given a government post within three years. Says one colleague: "She could well be the first woman Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...once a robber makes his move, cooperate fully and never resist. Do not carry a gun. Says Robert McKinney, an ex-forger who runs Project JOVE: "If there is not enough money in the till, write the guy a check." That conjures up the wry possibility of the grocer, pen poised, inquiring, "And whom shall I make...
...time it's all over, they'll find you floating face down in the East River." Ultimately, though, Serpico did provide evidence leading to charges against at least 20 cops. In one instance, he gathered evidence against two policemen who were shaking down his brother, a grocer, for a weekly $2 bribe to forestall harassment with petty citations. The two cops were dismissed from the force but were acquitted on subsequent criminal charges...
...issue were the cases of Dennis McGautha of Los Angeles, condemned for killing a grocer during an armed robbery, and James Crampton of Toledo. Ohio, convicted of murdering his second wife. Both men argued that their death sentences should be overturned because their juries had no guiding standards, such as the defendant's potential for rehabilitation, to help them choose a verdict of life or death...
...Corner Grocer. But opposition to the bail-out plan is already forming in Congress, where approval is necessary before the money actually starts flowing. "I will do my best as a Senator to oppose this proposal," said William Proxmire, who figured heavily in the defeat of the SST. House Banking Committee Chairman Wright Patman, who helped defeat the Administration's initial loan proposal to save Penn Central from bankruptcy last year, also has his knife out. Others are opposed to the rescue plan unless, as Indiana's Vance Hartke says, "the corner grocer gets...