Word: mastermind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arriving at the good stuff. Like the bestseller on which it was based, Black Sunday has aspirations toward being a grand-scale detective story. From the start, the Israelis and U.S. officials know that some big game is afoot, and they keep plodding along two or three steps behind Mastermind Keller (whose heavy German accent requires a great deal of unpersuasive explanation if she is to be passed off as an Arab) and her weird companion. Along the way Dern, who had broken down trying to make the transition from North Vietnamese prison camp to civilian status...
...Everette) Howard Hunt Jr. was paroled after spending 32 months in prison for helping mastermind the burglary. Uncontrite, he described Watergate as a "paranoid exploitation [of] a minor illegal act." He added: "I paid my price for Watergate in sorrow and lost, wasted years; in tragedy, ridicule and humiliation." The worst blow was the loss of his wife Dorothy, who was killed in a plane crash in 1972 while taking $10,000 in $100 bills to Chicago. Looking wan and thin, Hunt surfaced in Brookline, Mass., to consult with a booking agent about going on a lecture tour to make...
...MIND of the playwright is not unlike that of the master criminal. Before acting, each must construct a well-conceived, meticulous plan, tightly bound together, without any loose ends. In the case of Softly Stealing, the new Kirkland House musical, the mastermind is that of Tom Fuller '74 of Harvard's Gilbert and Sullivan fame, and the plot rocks with enough surprising twists and turns to be worthy of the reputation of Edward Sable, its notorious but good-hearted Victorian robber hero...
...vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, charged that Bell had given "aid and comfort to segregationists" while an Atlanta attorney, chief of staff to Georgia's segregationist Governor Ernest Vandiver and a member of the federal bench. Black Caucus Chairman Parren Mitchell accused Bell of being "the mastermind of Georgia's massive resistance" to school desegregation when he advised Vandiver from...
Within a week of the crime, Minister of the Interior Michel Poniatowski announced proudly at a press conference that "the catch of the [police] net is completed." With that, Police Commissioner Pierre Ottavioli disclosed that the mastermind of the crime was one Pierre de Varga, De Broglie's Hungarian-born partner in several questionable business enterprises. An accomplice, according to police, was another partner, Patrick Allenet de Ribemont. De Broglie had arranged a loan of $800,000 to both men to buy a Paris restaurant, La Ròtisserie de la Reine Pédauque, in which the prince...