Word: partner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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U.N.C.L.E. may end up crying aunt as Steed (Patrick Macnee) and his partner Mrs. Peel (Diana Rigg) kick up all kinds of heels on this fine British import series...
Backing him up were the testimony of his partner and a white bus driver, and a laboratory test that showed Dead-wyler's blood had an alcohol count of .35 (.20 above the level of intoxication). A passenger in the back seat refused to say whether he, too, had been drinking, though police played a recorded interview in which he admitted that he had been so drunk he didn't remember anything that happened...
...they raised their three children-Gary; Jimmy, 21, a Navy Reserve seaman aboard the aircraft carrier Oriskany (which left last week for Viet Nam); and Carol Ann, 20, a Cal State junior majoring in art. The father, William Wilson, 48, is a World War II Navy veteran and a partner in a window-shade manufacturing firm. He affords two cars (a 1957 Chevrolet station wagon and a 1961 Rambler) and a color television set, last summer traveled to Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong. His wife Elaine, 45, a plump, outspoken little lady, likes to season her children with such salt...
...Carpet. The money factory was finally closed down by accident. Late in 1964, Bojarsky proudly related his success to an old friend from the Polish army, offered to let him share the profits. It was not long before the new partner and his brother-in-law were carrying bundles of the phony bills to the post office and exchanging them for 5% treasury bonds. On the trail at last, the police tailed the pair to Bojarsky's modest home in Paris, found nothing in searching it until one cop tripped on the carpet, flipping the hidden switch that opened...
While the era is welcomed by every level, it is just beginning; there is still plenty for the Government to do before it becomes a really flexible partner. Many federal programs, framed by bureaucrats who often scorn as incompetent their brethren at the lower levels, still come with more strings than a troupe of marionettes, leaving no room for needed diversity and thereby threatening both the initiative and independence of the states. "The Federal Government earmarks grants for specific purposes," says James Q. Wilson, director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies. "In many cases, those purposes...