Word: nest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wealthy mobsters live like millionaires, Internal Revenue Service agents can ask discomfiting questions. Some Mafiosi have large sums in secret bank accounts overseas, most notably in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, as nest eggs in case they ever have to flee abroad. Other mobsters keep their escape money in bank safe-deposit boxes or hiding places called "traps." Anthony ("Fat Tony") Salerno, a gambler and loan shark who was indicted last week on charges of running a $10 million-a-year numbers operation in Manhattan, used to keep more than $1 million in small bills packed in shoe boxes stacked from floor...
...Chief James Schlesinger were scheduled to work on details throughout the weekend and perhaps until shortly before the package is delivered to Congress. But early drafts leaked out last week and, despite the Administration's insistence that some published reports were "four drafts old," they stirred a hornet's nest of protest. In general, businessmen faulted Carter for not eliminating Government controls on energy prices altogether, thereby letting free market forces raise prices to levels that would encourage more production. They also fear that the program will slow economic growth. Other objections...
...Haldeman-Ehrlichman types (Geraldine Page, Anne Jackson) and enough bugs and hidden cameras to outfit Moscow's embassy row. Her young rival (Susan Penhaligon), who is having a tumble under the poplars with a neighborhood priest, campaigns on a promise to make the abbey into a love nest. Just before Jackson sweeps to victory, her forces send a pair of Jesuit novices to burglarize her rival's sewing basket in search of love letters...
Married. Michael Douglas, 32, actor and Academy Award-winning co-producer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; and Diandra Lucker, 21, Georgetown University foreign affairs student whom he met at a Carter preInauguration party in Washington; both for the first time; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Said Actor Kirk Douglas, father of the groom: "I'll kill that guy if he turns me into a grandfather...
...Each House could build up its little nest, so that every two or three years we could offer a course taught by a senior faculty member, for example," Heimert said, adding that House courses provide students with a "less threatening learning environment...