Word: mr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When a corporation is financially on the rocks, unable to pay or renew its loans, and the U.S. Government lends that firm its credit-guarantees its loans-the firm has been bailed out as completely and as precisely as though the Government had given it the cash. Mr. Willis Hawkins, president of Lockheed-California, who recently held otherwise in your Letters column [June 27], should know this...
...charges were so serious-and so well publicized-that Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff, chairman of the committee, called for an investigation; the committee will decide this week whether to begin a probe. "If we just drop this thing," said Ribicoff, "we would be doing a disservice to Mr. Lance, a disservice to the President and a disservice to the country." Meanwhile, investigators from the U.S. Comptroller's office gathered up the records of Lance's big loan from the First National Bank of Chicago...
...magazine reporters, and next the curious from other towns, and finally the firemen and troopers and deputies from other towns too. One TV crew got up at 5 a.m. to video-tape a Delta sunrise, and in front of Owen Cooper's house on Grand Avenue, for which Mr. and Mrs. Cooper bought new carpets, drapes and sheets for their overnight visitor, I sighted a TV crew shooting another TV crew at work...
...them again in a great baseball park, clad in the classic threads of the trade that made them famous. The occasion was the 48th All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, and this time Willie Mays and Joe DiMaggio were not flogging some TV product like Mr. Coffee or the sweet smell of Brut on a centerfielder's forearm. They were presiding as honorary captains. Looking back on it, "Joltin' Joe" couldn't help reflecting that no matter what else in the world changes, "baseball was played the same then." The "Say Hey Kid" got round to admitting...
...were being held on active duty even after the Berlin crisis had subsided. Now Jimmy Carter has brought up the unfairness doctrine to explain his policy on abortion. Somehow the dictum comes out this time with a mean-spirited edge, like something from the lips of Dickens' Mr. Podsnap...