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...broad use of pocket vetoes and Executive privilege. He also helped arrange Nixon's commutation of jail sentences being served by Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa (which was widely interpreted as a political gesture in return for Teamster support of Nixon in the election) and by Mafia Capo Angelo ("Gyp") DeCarlo. Nonetheless, Clark MacGregor, who headed the re-election committee after John Mitchell resigned, recalls Dean not as part of the power elite but as a "wall sitter"-one who carried out policy rather than helped make...
...seashore real estate in 1945. It now makes up the bulk of his net worth of $300,000. His Democratic opponent next fall will be Brendan T. Byrne, 49, a former superior court judge who likes to recall having been described in the late '60s by Mafioso Angelo ("Gyp") DeCarlo as a politician who could not be bought. Indeed, he likes the tag so much that he used it as his campaign slogan and rolled to an easy victory in a state clearly surfeited with scandal...
...Gyp Joint. Undiscouraged, Jody decided last fall to challenge incumbent Mayor Elmer B. Swanson, 72. He could have rounded up sufficient petition signatures (twelve) within the Smith family, but opted instead for some house-to-house campaigning. "I talked a lot about the problem of frost boils in the streets," he says. "My theme was that it was time for a change...
...politicians. Although Governor Robert Ray was in Spain when Jody was inaugurated, he sent a congratulatory wire. Of course nobody is prouder of Jody's achievement than his fun-loving father Elmer ("They call me toothless Elmer"), whose gas station bears such puckish legends as ELMER'S GYP JOINT and GOD BLESS THIS MORTGAGED STATION...
...Moon Marigolds and it is nothing more or less than the story of a domineering woman and her smothered loved ones. This play could probably not exist were it not for the dramatic tradition that has in the past given us The Glass Menagerie. The Little Foxes, Gyp??y, and the entire career of Edward Albee. And yet Marigolds is so sharp, so disturbing, and. yes, so slick that you can almost forget that it operates within same of the most overworked theatrical territory of our time...