Word: pal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the week's other witnesses was Edward Levinson, a Las Vegas casino operator and Baker pal, who refused to answer some 60 questions. While waiting to testify, Levinson was handed a subpoena ordering him to produce his financial records in Las Vegas next week in a tax case involving Baker. Thus, even as the Rules Committee's low-octane investigation seemed about to run out of gas, Bobby's troubles were beginning to heat...
...Kerr, Black said, he was able to borrow large sums. In 1962 he got one loan for $175,000 to purchase stock in the Farmers & Merchants State Bank in Tulsa, subsequently sold 1,500 shares to Edward Levinson and 1,600 shares to Ben Sigelbaum, a seldom-seen Miami pal of Levinson's. For his part, Baker had other well-oiled bank connections. Washington's District of Columbia National Bank lent him an unsecured $125,000 for the full cost of Baker's new Washington home because, a bank officer testified, Baker was "a gentleman with innumerable...
...entire ploy was doubtless intended in part to please Albania's pal, Red China. The embassy harassment began last December, on the very eve of a visit by Peking's touring Chou Enlai, who was welcomed in the gnat-size Balkan backwater (pop. 1,800,000) with the brave slogan: "We and the Chinese are 700 million strong...
...Finger Man. Lippy Jean-Paul Belmondo, who first made crime pay as a pint-size Bogart in Breathless, now proves himself a magnum Cagney who can rough up a moll in vintage Chicago style. When Jean-Paul wants blonde Thérèse to rat on a pal, he slugs her, ties her wrists to her ankles, loops a belt around her neck and lashes it to a radiator pipe, gags her, decants a bottle of Haig & Haig over her while she's down, slugs her again. "Now sweetheart, baby, act sensibly," he coos. So she does. Later...
...Philosophy. At the time, Karl was seeking changes in federal regulations to help make his firm's private insurance more competitive with Veterans Administration and FHA mortgage insurance. He wrote a letter to his Capitol pal Bobby, pointing out that he had met some friendly Congressmen who were sympathetic to Magic's cause. Added Karl: "You undoubtedly know many congressional leaders who share the same view...