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Philadelphia's mayoral contest was the most closely watched municipal election, a costly, racially tinged campaign in which Goode, a Black, sought to hold off a comeback by former Democratic mayor-turned-Republican Rizzo. The bitter campaign cost an estimated $3.7 million, as each candidate called the other a liar in their quest to govern the "City of Brotherly Love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goode Leads in Philadelphia; Wilkinson Elected Gov. in Ky. | 11/4/1987 | See Source »

...July 18, 1978, Jackson ignored Martin's instructions to bunt in a game. Jackson was suspended for five days. Martin continued to show anger at his star player and on July 23 at O'Hare Airport in Chicago, Martin said of Jackson and Steinbrenner: "One's a born liar; the other's convicted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Martin Returns to Manage Yankees for Fifth Time | 10/20/1987 | See Source »

...Ogre looms over Karen's desk, throws down her latest report and thunders that while she may pretend she's turned around the El Paso situation, she is not fooling him. Karen's jaw drops, her head woggles in disbelief, and her voice quavers, "Are you calling me a liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chicago: Seminars Everywhere | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...some of Casey's men share their chief's admiration for North. Alan Fiers, who worked with North on the contra-resupply operation as chief of the CIA's Latin American Task Force, told the committees, "I never knew Colonel North to be an absolute liar, but I never took anything he said at face value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out in The Cold | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...Archer broke down on the witness stand defending her husband, while Coghlan dissolved into sobs several times. When Archer's lawyer accused her of concocting the tale in exchange for $10,000 from the News, Coghlan burst out, "You are a liar." At one point, after Coghlan testified that the man she said was Archer had had a pimply back, Mrs. Archer forthrightly declared that her husband possessed "excellent skin." Archer, who did not show his back as evidence, testified that he spent the evening in question dining at a fashionable Mayfair restaurant named Le Caprice. Even the judge seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Spare Pennies | 8/3/1987 | See Source »

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