Word: leon
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...practically immobilized by Watergate. As White House Chief of Staff, Haig presided over the sinking Government with considerable grace and good humor and, though a military man, he was much less authoritarian than his predecessors. While many Democrats resented his role in trying to preserve Nixon's presidency, Leon Jaworski, then special prosecutor, now completely exonerates him of any wrongdoing. Haig helped maintain staff morale and ensure that essential business was done in Nixon's last days; he helped to ease Nixon out of office and prepare the transition to Ford...
...agent (a recent and much resented addition to such discussions) and to check minor-league scouting reports. Abruptly, the men exchanged handshakes, then departed to announce formally that Cubs Relief Ace Bruce Sutler had been sent to the Cardinals in exchange for Third Baseman Ken Reitz, second-year Outfielder Leon Durham and a St. Louis minor leaguer to be named later. That seemingly casual negotiation was symbolic of baseball's return to its old ways after five years of free-agent chaos. For the first time since players won the right to play out their options and sell their...
...these moments are rare. For the most part, Strouse provides a fascinating and balanced portrait of a talented and frustrated woman. Her book is highly illuminating and eminently readable, in its own way as definitive a biography as Leon Edel's massive five-volume study of Henry. Alice James: A Biography is an enduring contribution to the growing collection of James family literature, and a moving and suggestive portrait of a woman of wasted potential...
...DIED. Leon Janney, 63, child actor in such movies as Courage (1930), Abie's Irish Rose (1928) and several Our Gang comedies who went on to a busy career in radio, theater, film and television; of cancer; in Guadalajara, Mexico. Janney made his debut as a two-year-old vaudevillian in his home town of Ogden, Utah, portrayed the all-American boy Richard Parker in The Parker Family on both radio and television, and was also noted for roles like Mr. Peachum in the 1956 off-Broadway revival of The Threepenny Opera...
Simms set up the winning score by hitting rookie wide receiver Mike Friede with a 26-yd. pass on a flea-flicker play, after pitching the ball out to running back Leon Perry and then taking a return pitch. It was New York's first victory over Dallas since...