Word: parked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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California Congressmen Charles H. Wilson and Edward Roybal were reprimanded by the House last month for not reporting, as required, $1,000 gifts from Koreagate's master briber, Tongsun Park. Hispanic Leader Roybal's supporters used Diggs' line of defense: suggesting that he was getting harsh treatment because of his ethnic background. He and Wilson were handily reelected...
...everyone got off, however. Congressman John McFall, reprimanded with his two California colleagues for taking Tongsun Park's gifts, lost. So did Philadelphia Congressman Joshua Eilberg, indicted for taking legal fees to help secure federal funds for a local hospital. Former Senator and Watergate Committee Member Edward Gurney of Florida, who was accused but acquitted of taking bribes for Government favors and lying to a grand jury, was defeated in a race for the House. And Florida Congressman Herbert Burke, charged with resisting arrest, disorderly intoxication and trying to influence a witness after an incident in a nude...
...hale and hearty staff of The Crimson trounced the forces of the Yale Daily News in touch football this morning at Soldiers Field Park, coming back from behind to clinch The Game...
...down to the park with him and play for an hour every night," she remembers. "If I told him I didn't want to play, he'd call me a 'wuss' or a 'wimp' and drag me out anyway...
...give me a hand?' " So said former Ford President Lee Iacocca last week, talking about how he had just made one of the most spectacular moves in Detroit's long history of high-level executive swapping. Iacocca was appearing at a press conference in the Highland Park, Mich., headquarters of his new employer with his new boss, Chrysler Chairman John J. Riccardo, whom almost no one ever calls Johnny. But Riccardo did not seem to mind the unaccustomed familiarity. Speaking of the man just named by Chrysler's board as the troubled company's new president...