Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helped a flock of long shots win office. In Garth's TV commercials, which became increasingly important as time went on, Koch came on as Mr. Competence. Still, Koch remained back in the pack of seven. Mario Cuomo's belated entry, with strong backing from Governor Hugh Carey, attracted the support and campaign contributions of many mayor makers searching for a new-look liberal...
...workers, including five of the 30 vice presidents. President Derick Daniels circulated a written assurance that "no further planned mass reductions" would occur; understandably, that did not solace the survivors. He called the purge part of a "broad program to reduce administrative overhead and reallocate resources." Added Founder-Chairman Hugh Hefner, 51: "What you are seeing is the final stage of a massive re-evaluation and reorganization...
...militant 260,000-member National Union of Mineworkers, whose members rejected the recommendations of their leaders. Most of the margin of victory came from the 1.2 million-member Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, many of whose delegates tried in vain to challenge the pro-rule vote reported by President Hugh Scanlon. That move was scotched by Marie Patterson, a member of the transportation workers union, who said the challengers were out of order and snapped, "I am not here to rule on the internal workings of the A.U.E.W...
Another stock swindler, named Edward Hugh Wuensche, was moved to England, where, as Hugh E. Winchester, he managed to loot a Maltese investment fund of $600,000 before being jailed. Joseph Barboza, a New England hit man with 27 murders to his credit, was relocated in San Francisco as Joseph Bently; shortly afterward, local authorities arrested him-for murder. Louis Bombacino, a Chicago hoodlum, was given a floor-sweeping job at the Arizona Public Service Co. in Tempe. He was eventually caught peddling irrigation equipment stolen from the company and profiting from a gambling-prostitution ring. Justice officials admit that...
...been changed to protect the guilty. Even so, it is not hard to identify such major characters as President Richard Monckton (Jason Robards), ex-President Esker Scott Anderson (Andy Griffith), CIA Chief William Martin (Cliff Robertson) or National Security Council Head Carl Tessler (Harold Gould). Lesser Watergate lights-from Hugh Sloan to Howard Hunt-should be recognizable to anyone who has seen All the President...