Word: patly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intital comedy, evolving around a buzzing airplane, establishes Andy Rosann's Bill as the comic of the group-the man who creates the funniest gags, and makes the even funnier gestures. Gradually the rest of the cookout's participants warm up to Bill's level with Cindy Cardon's Pat and Lorenzo Mariani's Howard forming a chilling team of innocence and brutality...
...such activity was an abortive payroll heist at a sewage works, which went awry when the payroll messenger did not show up. Later the group planned to raise money for the cause by staging another payroll robbery at a construction site. One of the unit's members, Pat O'Brien, was on holiday in Ireland, and Lennon was ordered by Wicken to steer clear of the caper. The three other members of the unit walked into a trap and were arrested before the heist could take place. In December all were found guilty of plotting the robbery...
...Inspector Wicken was taken with the idea, on the theory that this might widen the net: "He told me to play along with it." In January Lennon and O'Brien drove to Birmingham to reconnoiter the Winson Green prison, where one of the prisoners was held. "I told Pat to get out and take a photo...
...current case resulted from two Miami Herald editorials in September 1972. Both acidly criticized Pat L. Tornillo Jr., a teachers' union executive and then a candidate in a legislative primary."We cannot say it would be illegal", the Herald advised, "but certainly it would be inexcusable of the voters if they sent Pat Tornillo to Tallahassee." Tornillo twice appeared at Herald offices with rebuttals and asked that the paper print them or risk violation of Florida's 1913 right-to-reply statute. Herald editors refused...
...interviews, asking ex-Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas how she felt about the Red-scare smear campaign that Richard Nixon used to defeat her in 1950. Said Douglas: "I woke up the next morning a free person and found that I had been sincere with myself." With ex-Housewife Pat Loud she discussed the lack of neighborliness in New York. The most stirring interview was when Martha came face to face with a tiger named Prince, who was under the eye of Animal Tamer Gunther Gebel-Williams Then she had a revelation of her own: "I talked my husband into becoming...