Word: helluva
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is talking in Los Angeles, but not much. "We're a helluva long way from anything yet," says a Guild spokesman. Aggrieved that they are paid one of the lowest minimums of any sizable paper in the country ($174.80 a week after five years), Guildsmen seek a $25.20-a-week raise over two years. Management has offered $13 over the same period. The longer the strike drags on, the more nonunion personnel the Herald-Examiner hires to put out the paper. It is not much different from the usual one. It skimps on local news, runs...
...that, to say the least, will take a load off Coach Lombardi's mind. "We're having a helluva time," admits Vinnie. "But this is going to be a great club, maybe next year, maybe this year. Or," he added, "maybe next week...
Margaret Kreig quotes a racketeer who was persuading a petty crook to move over to fake drugs from the numbers game, which had earned him many convictions: "There are no problems. It's not like junk [narcotics]. FDA has a helluva time making any kinda case. And when they get you-if they get you-it's only a misdemeanor for misbranding, or some such. So you hafta pay a couple hundred dollars' fine. You can make it back in a couple of hours...
...some expression of viewpoints different from its own." But the Post showed no signs of enriching its threadbare news coverage. "If only Dolly Schiff would bend a couple of degrees and broaden the horizons of her paper," noted Los Angeles Times Publisher Otis Chandler, "she could pick up one helluva rich market...
...civil rights bills." Floyd McKissick, CORE's national director and an advocate of black power, says that "the black community has its fingers crossed on Brooke." But McKissick also concedes: "If one is a politician in a white state, one relies on white votes. Right? Ed Brooke is one helluva politician. He has the appearance, the education, the intelligence; he has the middle-class standards white people like. If he's going to stay in politics, he'd better stay just what he's been...