Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That attitude may well have induced the committee's potential star witness, Rice Broker Tongsun Park, to surface at a press conference in Seoul last week nine months after he fled from Washington to London to avoid questioning. The Korean Central Intelligence Agency presumably arranged Park's flight from London to Seoul to keep him out of Jaworski's way, and then stage-managed his press conference as well. As one of Park's old Washington cronies observed, "He said not a word in Washington or London. Then he gets to Seoul and holds a press...
...which he was a vice president walked into the garage of his $120,000 north Dallas home, turned on the ignition of his Oldsmobile and settled back to die of carbon monoxide poisoning. Later that day, Gravitt's family and Bell colleagues found in his briefcase a nine-page memo accusing his company of political payoffs, illegal wiretapping and using questionable bookkeeping to secure telephone rate increases. A hand-scribbled message added, "There is bound to be much more. Watergate is a gnat compared to the Bell system...
...Chicago, hundreds of unemployed young blacks mill on the street where Albirtha Young, 29, lives with her welfare-supported family?twelve people in all. "I didn't want to pick cotton all my life," she says, explaining her move to the city's West Side from Mississippi nine years ago. She brought two children North, now has four more?along with two left to her care by an aunt, plus two younger brothers and a sister to tend. The extended family lives in a two-story frame house bracketed by vacant lots, gutted houses and apartment buildings. Albirtha...
...watching The Six Million Dollar Man, what are the natives of such Alaskan outposts as Kipnuk and Mekoryuk doing? They too are watching The Six Million Dollar Man. This is one of the preliminary findings of the state-funded $1.5 million experiment that for seven months has been bringing nine hours of TV a day to 23 rural Alaskan villages via satellite...
...Nine years out of ten, the peasants who live in the mountain-ringed Bavarian village of Oberammergau (pop. 4,800) devote themselves mainly to such tasks as herding cows, carving wooden figurines and drinking beer. Every tenth year, however, Oberammergau is transfigured into the site of the world-renowned Passion Play put on by a cast and crew of 1,400 villagers. So it has been ever since the 17th century, when the pageant was started after an epidemic of bubonic plague. During the last run in 1970, the 93 performances of the daylong Roman Catholic folk drama drew...