Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What happened between early February, when the Hoover-Cleveland-Loeb correspondence took place, and March 3, when Gill says the CIA paid her, remains a secret. Gill would not elaborate how the "mix-up" was rectified...
Businessmen Harvey Klaris and Richard Kovner, both 33, say that their country club offers an alternative for people who want to mix without pressure to make an instant connection, as in a singles bar. But their approach seems to generate its own pressure. One staffer observes: "People come together like this because they're lonely. The singles business is a sad business...
...million-if it were uncontaminated and of high quality. Unfortunately, the gas released by Rulison is chemically inferior to gas from conventional wells in the same field and contains excessive amounts of radioactive byproducts like tritium. The cheapest way to correct those faults, the AEC says, would be to mix one unit of the contaminated Rulison gas with up to 50 units of high-quality nonradioactive gas. But to do so would require an abundance of uncontaminated natural gas, which is what the nuclear program was supposed to provide in the first place...
...world is Evangelist Billy Graham's parish. At his insistence the South African government temporarily abrogated its apartheid laws in order to let blacks and whites mix at an international conference in Durban on mission and evangelism. In his keynote address to the 1,500 delegates and observers, Graham last week described the gathering as a watershed: "You will never be the same. South Africa will never be the same." Later, before a Johannesburg rally for 80,000, the sometime White House preacher let off some steam about crime and punishment back home...
Embarrassed police spoke with amazement of "dead ringers," "twins" and "doubles." In fact, however, the mix-up was merely a reminder of how frequently unreliable police lineups are for the purpose of identification. Only four months before, a Queens teen-ager was misidentified in another rape case. Leonard Gordon, Schrager's defense attorney, spent 20 years as a policeman. He notes that "police can often put pressure on a witness to clear up their caseload." They can press for a quick identification, fearing that the longer a witness mulls, the more likely he is to have doubts. Often others...