Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republican side, the favorite to succeed the retired Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania as minority leader is Michigan's Robert Griffin, 53, one of Gerald Ford's closest allies. Griffin might be challenged by Tennessee's Howard Baker. Another Ford ally is in line to succeed Griffin as minority whip: the now familiar Senator from Kansas, Robert Dole...
Lawrence D. Glueck, defensive back- field coach, said yesterday that the highlight of Puopolo's football career were two interceptions made this year at the Pennsylvania game...
...blustery near-zero night last week, 25 law officers hiding in hip-high brush watched silently as a huge DC-6 cargo plane dropped low over Highway 611, rolled down a landing strip of a tiny Pennsylvania airport and lumbered to a stop at runway's end. For almost an hour, while the law shivered under blankets only yards away, the plane sat motionless; the only sound was the static of radio chatter emanating from people who watched from other vantage points near by. Then three rented vans, a Mercedes sedan, a Chevrolet station wagon and a Ford...
Thus ended a dramatic stake-out at the Mount Pocono airfield that involved U.S. customs and border-patrol agents. Federal Drug Enforcement officials and Pennsylvania state police. The cops' sporadic watch had begun last month, following a tip that a mysterious chartered plane might land somewhere in Pennsylvania with illegal goods...
...before its arrival, the police got word that a U.S. customs pursuit plane with sophisticated surveillance gear had intercepted the charter as it winged its way over Key West. The airborne feds tracked the intruder up the coast, warning local police in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Maryland and finally Pennsylvania that the plane might touch down at any time...