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...this vacuum that Crane decided to fill. The CCA backed candidate fought his way onto the council and with the help of political and collegiate pal Joseph DeGuiglielmo '29, a man with Crane-like credentials, wasted no time in manipulating Cambridge's first city manager, John Atkinson, into making 13 years of yes-man decisions...
...ready for such awesome competition. His novel is a string of craftsmanlike vignettes awash in hyperbole. Emotions are so consistently overwrought that tempestuousness is soon diminished to nagging petulance. Some of the blame may belong to the translation. One Russian greets another with an improbable, hearty "Hallo, Pal" or a "Come on, Boss...
...learned fast that he could keep bigger boys at bay by making them laugh. In his early teens he was touring Catskills resorts as a stand-up comic and drummer. At 30 he was making $2,500 a week writing Your Show of Shows with his old Catskills pal Comedian Sid Caesar...
...that shortly before Nixon sought the resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman in April 1973, he had offered them help for future legal costs and family support from one of two secret White House funds. One was a fund of $200,000 to $300,000 controlled by Nixon's pal...
...Government, Ben-Veniste told the jurors, will show that $25,000 of some $400,000 secretly paid to the seven men first convicted in the 1972 burglary and wiretapping of Democratic national headquarters came originally from Bebe Rebozo, Nixon's longtime personal pal. The cash was picked up at Key Biscayne on Mitchell's orders by Frederick LaRue, a Mitchell assistant...