Word: hughe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...talks outraged many members of Congress because city and state officials had testified that without federal help, default was inevitable. Fumed Republican Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon: "Those guys sat here and lied to us. I don't think we should bail those liars out." Governor Hugh Carey told congressional leaders that the plan had virtually no hope of succeeding because of legal snarls; indeed, Big Mac Chairman Felix Rohatyn called it a "20-to-l shot." Even so, the dustup further damaged New York's already bankrupt credibility...
...York's Mayor Abraham Beame and Governor Hugh Carey seem well aware of Ford's rhetorical aim. Their own arguments about New York are designed to bring it back into the fold, to identify it as strongly as possible with the rest of America, and to describe it in the smallest, least intimidating terms possible. "We need not a handout," Carey complained bitterly last month, "but the recognition by the Federal Government that we are a part of this country." Beame ended a long speech last week by conjuring up the same kind of vision. "We cannot avoid our national...
...London, a bomb believed to have been planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded outside the elegant town house where Caroline Kennedy, 17, had been visiting. The intended victim was her host, Tory M.P. Hugh Fraser, who has advocated stronger anti-I.R.A. measures in Northern Ireland. Fraser, a longtime friend of the Kennedy family, and the shaken daughter of the late President escaped injury, but a bystander, Dr. Gordon Hamilton Fairley, one of the world's leading cancer specialists, was killed in the blast...
With his competitors multiplying like rabbits, Playboy Emperor Hugh Hefner, 49, has recruited help for his troubled hutch. Starting Nov. 1, his new "special assistant" will be Christie Hefner, 22, Hefs own willowy brunette daughter. "I'll be listening and learning about the entire corporation and placing problems in front of my father that need his attention," says Christie, who has been following her father's "Playboy Philosophy" since she was 18 and began rooming with a college boy friend. Alas, she will apparently disappoint feminist critics of the bare-skin magazine. "My presence speaks for itself...
...city's cuts. Two weeks ago, he was outraged when the Emergency Financial Control Board, the fiscal overseer imposed by the state on the city in September, rejected an agreement that had ended a five-day teachers' strike last month. The board, which is controlled by Governor Hugh Carey, challenged the settlement as too costly, and may throw out many of its pay increases...