Word: nick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard fans could take some solace in wins by freshmen foilmen Nick Tepe and John Major, who had what Marion termed "outstanding" nights. Coren Joseph led the team's scoring effort with a 2-1 night in sabre competition...
Investigative Reporter James Drinkhall, who has written exposes of the Teamsters in the past, says that Ed got together with Nick in late 1971. In a sense, Nick had solid Teamster connections. Among innumerable brushes with the law, he had been indicted along with three Mafia gangsters in 1968 for offering kickbacks in return for Teamster loans. Three years later, the indictment was dismissed for lack of evidence. As it happened, a crucial Government witness turned up dead-floating in his boat down a river, the back of his head removed by a shotgun blast. "Nick has always conducted himself...
...spring 1972, Ed and Nick received the first payment from the union. They formed a corporation, America on the Move, Inc., and hired a reputable public relations consultant, Thelma Gray, to handle the publicity campaign. Setting up offices at the Samuel Goldwyn studios in Hollywood, they launched the project at Teamster headquarters in Washington. Demonstrating its usual friendliness toward the union, the Nixon Administration sent top officials to attend the ceremonies...
America on the Move had been hijacked-by its own producers. It seems that no sooner had Ed and Nick set up shop in Hollywood than they formed a second corporation, Sabra Productions Inc., which began shooting a movie in Israel. To finance the film, they dipped heavily into money allocated for the Teamster campaign, an action that has caused the U.S. Department of Justice to start an investigation. Ed and Nick argue that $400,000 of their Teamster budget was "profit" to use as they pleased. But they spent much more than that. Explains McMahon: "We misused the money...
Harvard again could be without the services of top middle-distance man Nick Leone. The injured Leone would normally participate in the mile relay...