Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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America's elite had gathered, but not for a political function--Tip O'Neill stood, not on Pennsylvania Avenue, but on Jersey Street in Boston. The crowd was dressed for opera, but there was no opera house. The reporters were jotting down notes for the sports page, not for op-ed columns or music reviews. The upper class had descended on Fenway Park for the first game of the World Series...
...alumnus who had once owned part of the Milwaukee Braves. And, I might as well confess, my ticket too was unearned, a gift from a friend in Washington--where tickets were easier to come by than in either Boston or Cincinati--a friend who knew a Pennsylvania congressman who happened to have a buddy...
...Records. In addition to the Oswald note, there are more ominous suspicions about links between him and the FBI that are being explored by a Senate subcommittee headed by Pennsylvania Republican Richard Schweiker and Colorado Democrat Gary Hart. Schweiker even suspects that Oswald might have had a formal connection with the bureau. The Senator's suspicions rest in part on the linguistic ruse Hoover used when asked by the Warren Commission about the bureau's links to Oswald. The director declared that "no FBI records could be found" of any connection; the careful wording has persuaded Schweiker that...
...there any satisfactory explanations for how Karen got into her appalling situation. She was born of unknown parents in Pennsylvania and adopted by the Quinlans when she was four weeks old. The Quinlans still think of her as a friendly, outgoing girl, a fine skier and swimmer, who occasionally picked up a few extra dollars by singing in church. Friends from Morris Catholic High School, from which Karen graduated in 1972, describe her as quiet, but popular with the boys. Her employer at a ceramics company in Ledgewood, N.J., where she was a production worker until she was laid...
...will open with a performance of Appalachian Spring, a suite from the Pulitzer prize-winning ballet by prominent American composer Aaron Copland. The ballet is a charming work which captures all of the joyful and apprehensive emotions of a young pioneer farmer and his bride-to-be in the Pennsylvania hills during the early part of the last century. The flavor of the mountain folk tradition is so pungent that one is nearly drawn to begin foot-stomping and hand-clapping...