Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attorney General Bell have crossed the Rubicon as far as Marston is concerned, but the new U.S. Attorney "of merit" in Philadelphia had better follow through on the investigations of local politicians now serving in Congress...
...more wily protester is Oakland University Political Scientist Lawrence Farley, who won an unpaid position on a local charter advisory commission. Honoring the letter of the law, Farley filed reports on "The Nameless Non-Committee for a Non-Candidate for a Non-Existing Advisory Commission." Total campaign expenses: one 130 stamp to mail the form...
...vesque was born in New Carlisle (pop. 1,100) on Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula. The son of a local lawyer, he attended Laval University in Quebec City, where he earned a B.A. but spent much of his time playing poker (he is "reckless" at it, says a partner of later days). Lévesque was suspended from Laval's law school in his third year for smoking in a lecture hall...
Learning that the local Public Broadcasting Service station would begin airing old re-runs of the group's BBC television series came as very welcome news in those days, and the prospect of being disappointed or even failing to be amused never crossed my mind. Yet disappointment and the nervous giggle did mark my response to that first Monty Python re-run, and the process of a previously inconceivable disenchantment first set in right then and there. What had sounded on the stereo like an irrepressible source of path-breaking humor came off on the screen as just so many...
State of emergency?? Mike Dukakis didn't look too alarmed to me, all cozy and mellow in his turtleneck and sweater. For us local sports addicts, the problem lately hasn't been the snow, it's been a lack of action so severe that we've all been sent in search...