Word: much
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While McCormack acknowledged knowing Voloshen, he denied that the dapper wheeler-dealer used the Speaker's suite as his headquarters: "He's a friend of mine, but he's not in my office much." Reporter Smith's investigation indicated otherwise. On Sept. 25, Smith asked for Voloshen in the Speaker's office. An aide said: "We haven't seen Mr. Voloshen today, but he may come in." The assistant also furnished the telephone number and address of the attorney's Manhattan office. Last year, in an interview with the Washington Post, Sweig called...
Members of the French-educated elite, including civil servants and many intellectuals, criticize the U.S. from a somewhat loftier level. They accuse the Americans of practicing a kind of cultural defoliation in Viet Nam. "We consider your country too young, and there is not much we can learn from you, save for what we call modern development," says one intellectual. "We tend to equate you with machines for whom there is no deep thinking." Says another: "Americans have no culture, unless you call beer and big bosoms culture." At Saigon's Cercle Sportif and around upper-middle-class dining...
...Much of the credit goes to Lieut. General Johannes Steinhoff, 56, a hardened World War II ace who shot down 176 planes over Britain, Africa, Italy and Russia and had his face badly mangled in the last of his twelve crack-ups less than a month before the German surrender. Steinhoff took over the Luftwaffe in 1966 with a mandate to "pick up the pieces" of the Starfighter scandal. He tightened organizational control, farmed out some Starfighter maintenance to private industry, which was better equipped to handle it than the Luftwaffe, and introduced more than 2,000 design and safety...
...telling her, "You're no better than a whore." Bystanders kept her husband from Guillermin's throat, and Ewa dropped out of the cast of El Condor in a fury. "If the producer wants a show girl, he should contact one," she said. "It would be much cheaper for him all around." Ewa had previously objected to two "superfluous" skin bits in the Spanish western, one a bed scene with Jim Brown and the other a nude-at-the-window scene in front of a large crowd. "I don't object to nudity," she explained. "I object...
...little boy. You will think me a fool, but would the orchestra permit me to conduct a rehearsal?" The orchestra was only too happy, and the great pianist, 80, was delighted. "I learned a tremendous lesson today," he said when he had finished. "I now realize how much is involved...