Word: names
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief with San Franciscan Richard Hongisto, a liberal defender of homosexuals' rights, who at first was widely disliked by the police but quickly gained the department's respect. Within months Kucinich fell out with the chief and fired him. Not until last week did Kucinich name a permanent successor. The mayor's choice: Jeffrey Fox, a 36-year-old former city personnel director with no previous police experience. The selection left the force seething in anger...
...comfort to the prison chaplain. One reason is omerta, the Mafia oath of silence. Another is the fact that Dellacroce, in one of his favorite disguises, likes to don a clerical collar and go about as "Father O'Neill" (a play on a common mispronunciation of his first name). Lillo has no yearning for the last rites, least of all as administered by the Little Lamb...
Sakowitz, a Houston department store that tries to give pretentiousness a good name, amuses its millionaire patrons with tongue-in-checkbook "ultimate gifts" in its Christmas catalogue. Among this year's offerings: a professionally filmed documentary of your life for $50,000, a private island and lighthouse in the Pacific for $750,000, your wife's weight in loose 10-carat diamonds at $4 million per lb. and an offshore oil rig, capable of drilling in 300 ft. of water, for $28.7 million...
...position'' -a euphemism for resign. Eschel Rhoodie has hinted that an unnamed three-man Cabinet committee supervised the operations of his department. Prime Minister Botha has appointed yet another investigating committee, which is supposed to report to parliament in three weeks. Even John Vorster's name has been mentioned in the scandal; Luyt told Mostert that he agreed to start the Citizen only because he was led to believe that Vorster had personally selected him for the job At one stage in the press inquiry into the scandal, a crusading editor received a message that allegedly came...
...traffic in mementos is even beginning to spread to other countries, as white Rhodesians emigrate abroad at the rate of 1,000 a month. Currently one of the hottest items on the memorabilia market harks back to Cecil Rhodes' colonization in 1889 of the country that bears his name. This is the green-and-white Rhodesian flag, which bears the Rhodes family arms (lion passant between two thistles). A 6-ft. by 3-ft. Rhodesian flag that retails for $18 in Salisbury now costs...