Word: joes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while Spenkelink was serving a five-year sentence for armed robbery, he walked away from the minimum-security Slack Canyon Conservation Camp near Big Sur. Driving through Nebraska, he picked up a hitchhiker, Joe Szymankiewicz, 43, an Ohio parole violator who had spent 16 years behind bars for forgery, burglary, theft and other crimes. For several weeks they roamed the country, ending up on Feb. 3, 1973, in Room 4 of the Ponce de Leon Motel in Tallahassee. Next morning, a maid discovered Szymankiewicz dead in bed. He had been bludgeoned and shot twice...
...ended the Trudeau era is Joe Clark, the little-known leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. At 39, Clark will become Canada's youngest Prime Minister ever and its first Tory leader since John Diefenbaker was defeated by Lester Pearson in 1963. Clark faces the most difficult challenge that has confronted Canada in the 112 years since confederation: reconciling a nation that has never quite come to grips with its divided past...
...Liberal strategy was to depict Trudeau as the only leader with enough depth and experience to turn the economy around, maintain the authority of the central government and keep Quebec from breaking away. "In every important area of policy, Joe Clark doesn't know what the heck he is talking about," claimed Trudeau. Putting it more bluntly, one Trudeau aide told TIME Ottawa Bureau Chief John Scott: "The Conservatives' bottom line is that it's time for a change. Our bottom line is that Joe Clark is a nerd...
Accurately enough, Tory Leader Joe Clark interpreted the big vote for the Liberals as a rebuff to the separatists. Said he: "Quebeckers, even if they did not vote for us, voted massively for federalism...
...JOE WHO? That disbelieving headline appeared in the Toronto Star three years ago, the day after an obscure M.P. from rural Alberta emerged as leader of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party, following a hotly contested convention. The question quickly became a national joke, and the joke led to insults. "Henry Aldrich from Alberta," sniffed one Liberal Cabinet minister...