Word: macke
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Federal Communications Commissioner Richard A. Mack, he said, had taken a $2,650 payoff for casting the deciding vote in favor of granting a lucrative Miami television channel to a subsidiary of National Airlines. The money, Schwartz said, came from well-to-do Miami Lawyer Thurman A. Whiteside, who had a reputation as, "to use the colloquial term, 'a fixer.' " Added Schwartz: "Mr. Whiteside himself has been, and I believe still is, subject to disbarment proceedings." Schwartz's catalogue of evidence included a wire recording secretly made at his direction by his aide, Herbert Wachtell, while questioning...
...Only the puck went unscathed in Boston last week when every Boston Bruin and Montreal Canadien swarmed out on the ice for a spectacular 14-minute brawl. After them skidded skateless cops, pratfalling through a Mack Sennett routine, while frantic officials whistled out a string of 27 penalties. At game's end (Montreal 4, Boston 3) the skating wounded included Boston's Leo Labine (five stitches in the forehead) and Jack Bionda (mashed hand), and Montreal's Henri Richard (six stitches in the scalp...
Disney equivalent of Mack Sennett's bathing beauties, and added to that the well-known family of skunks. He even permitted Bambi to make a guest appearance in the picture-anyway, when a young buck appears, that's who the narrator says...
Most Americans honestly believe that they hold the document sacred-but how many really agree with the various freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution? Not many, if a sampling produced last week by Sociologists Robert McGinnis of the University of Wisconsin and Raymond W. Mack of Northwestern is to be taken as good evidence. Sampled: students at the two universities and teachers in the Wisconsin public schools, who were asked whether they agree or disagree with 14 statements based on the Bill of Rights. Whether the students went to a public or private school made no difference. Nor did it, matter...
...More than seven in ten students at either university," said the McGinnis-Mack report, "would deny an accused person the right to confront his accuser. More than four in ten believe that, there are situations where star-chamber proceedings are preferable to a public trial. About four in every ten believe there are groups to whom the right of peaceful public assembly should be denied...