Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freelandia's founder, is 30-year-old Kenneth Moss, a resurrected middle-class kid from Long Island and two-time dropout at Syracuse U. And self-made millionaire at age 26. Moss bought stocks in disposable thermometers after he left Syracuse and rode the crest of one of the wildest, wealthiest stock market waves in history...
...first half of the play is practically a single speech an hour long. Teresa, very well played by Amy Moss, pours out the story of her life, sloppily, like soup overflowing a saucer--her nightmares, unhappy childhood, financial problems, and unrequited love for her husband. "Is all this boring you?" she asks Elena (Anne Singer)--a risky suggestion for an author to make to an audience when presenting this kind of familiar material. But Ginzburg carries it off, and instead of sounding like your roommate's version of hell at Harvard, the first act is hypnotic and convincing...
After the Watergate affair broke open last spring, O'Neill became deeply involved in the House's reaction. He and Albert squelched as "premature" a move by Congressman John Moss to have the House start impeachment hearings after Senator Sam Ervin's committee began its work. O'Neill knew that there were insufficient grounds at that point to justify the step, which could jeopardize future efforts if the evidence came to warrant impeachment...
While Agnew works, his Government limousine is at his beck, and Secret Service agents keep guard downstairs, eying visitors through bulletproof one-way glass. The fact that the former Vice President has been receiving such perquisites so angered Democratic Congressman John E. Moss that he asked the General Accounting Office to investigate. Last week Comptroller General Elmer Staats wrote Moss that in just under two months the Government had already spent $89,132 on Agnew's staff, $2,075 for the maintenance of the town houses, $877 for office supplies and $905 to move the cartons from...
...addition, the cost of providing Secret Service protection for Agnew-a dozen agents accompanied him to Annapolis, and they keep watch in a parked car outside his house-is estimated at $80,000 so far. Staats told Moss: "We know of no specific provision of law authorizing the Secret Service to so protect a Vice President after he leaves office." President Nixon had ordered the Secret Service coverage for Agnew...