Word: lyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could be considered unfair news coverage." As a result, presidential aides reviewed methods for dealing with "the media and anti-Administration spokesmen." Jeb Stuart Magruder, then an aide to Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, recommended antitrust action and threats of tax audits as weapons. Former White House Aide Franklyn ("Lyn") Nofziger was more imaginative according to the memo, "suggesting the 'licensing' of individual newsmen, i.e., the air waves belong to the public, therefore the public should be protected from the misuse of these air waves by individual newsmen...
...dream of. Trading his farm for Lucette, a 43-ft. wooden schooner, he set off on a round-the-world cruise. Eighteen months later and 200 miles west of the Galápagos Islands, his yacht was hit by killer whales and sank in one minute. Robertson, his wife Lyn, their three sons, Douglas, 18, and the twins Neil and Sandy, 12, and a Welsh student guest, Robin Williams, 22, were adrift on the Pacific...
Robertson began to catch fish, using a homemade spear fashioned from gadgetry in his wife's sewing basket. Obliging sea turtles, apparently attracted to the dinghy in hopes of mating with it, added to the larder. They also enabled Lyn, a nurse by profession, to administer turtle-oil enemas to restore bowel movements. Finally, after 37 days at sea, the six castaways were picked up by a passing Japanese tuna boat...
...Lyn Duddy, a New Yorker who writes music and lyrics for television and nightclub acts, once weighed 268 Ibs. He is now down to about 170 and hopes to stay there thanks to an unusual regimen that permits him to eat heavy cream, dressings and certain other rich food, but allows almost no fruit, cake or candy...
...adoption proceedings, Baker's name became Pat Lyn McConnell, but he has not yet decided whether to use the name. Also undecided is what effect the new relationship will have on their marriage license appeal. Baker's natural parents are dead, but lawyers say that even if they were not, the adoption would probably have been possible with or without their consent because he is not a minor. That issue will likely be tested soon enough, because the adoption solution seems certain to be tried as a way of providing legal bonds for such unconventional relationships as communes...