Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going to get $175,000 a year to kick some life into Hollywood. Valenti also vowed "to bring the Great Society to the movie industry." That is a scene that remains to be screened. Still, after President Valenti's first 100 days in office, even cynical Hollywood cannot knock him for trying...
Hush Money. Apart from pool rentals, the studio enriched the Connecticut economy in several other ways. A buzz-saw operator whose activities were marring the sound track was paid $200 to knock it off for the day. This in turn sent everybody and his mother out into the yards for miles around with everything from compressors to power mowers, looking for further hush money. This week 175 members of the Lake Club of New Canaan are scheduled to share the loot as extras. It's not that they need the $5 a day; it's the glimpse...
...personality and loyalty. Put to the choice, Michigan's Democrats could not turn their backs on Williams, and he made it easy for them not to by being the old Soapy they remembered. Just about all the experts feel that Williams now has an excellent chance to knock off Senator Robert Griffin, the bright but diffident Republican appointed to McNamara's post by G.O.P. Governor George Romney. In labor-powerful Michigan, Griffin is marked eternally as co-author of the Landrum-Griffin Act, the 1959 legislation that imposed severe restrictions on the internal procedures of labor unions...
...possible 250, winning a rating as a sharpshooter, second only to expert. In the Marines, though, he also got busted from corporal to private and sentenced to 30 days' hard labor for illegal possession of a pistol, was reprimanded for telling a fellow Marine that he was going "to knock your teeth out." He rated his favorite sports as hunting, scuba diving and karate...
...Czech embassy in Washington. Aft er a number of casual conversations with Mrkva (whose surname means "Carrot"), Pisk became confident that Carrot was ready for uprooting. Pisk arranged a private dinner, suggested that Mrkva, now 38, might want to help the Czech Communist cause by doing a little spying. "Knock off the patriotism business," snapped Mrkva. "I'm interested in money." Pisk offered to give Mrkva and his family a free trip to Czechoslovakia, pay off Mrkva's mortgage and finance an operation on his daughter's spinal curvature. Mrkva, who had kept the FBI informed from...