Word: persons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protect the Pope, the Irish government mounted the biggest security operation in the country's history, deploying most of its 10,000 police officers and 13,000-man army. More than half of Ireland's 3 million people saw the Pope in person, including more than a million and a quarter at the Mass he celebrated before a 200-ft. steel cross in Dublin's Phoenix Park. Addressing the largest gathering in Irish history, John Paul warned that "prosperity and affluence" tend to make people "more selfish in their demands...
...submerged car in July 1969 as well as his failure to seek help? Many reporters thought so. But Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell indignantly denied the connection. Quite correctly, Powell pointed out that Kennedy had raised the leadership issue, suggesting, in effect, that the nation is seeking a stronger person in the White House. Added Powell: "How can you ask an incumbent President who has faced every tough, thankless issue and has a commendable record-not perfect, but pretty damn good-to give up the right to point to the record? That's not an attack on anyone...
...contact with Nixon during previous crises in Nixon's life. Nixon therefore did not have with Connally the same fear of not being taken sufficiently seriously. Connally's swaggering self-assurance was Nixon's Walter Mitty image of himself. He was one person whom Nixon never denigrated behind his back...
...justice, and his lawyer wife Deborah, 37, apparently do not read police fiction. Returning to their home in Oakland Hills early one evening, Mrs. Halvonik found that a burglar had stolen $1,450 worth of television and video-tape equipment. She called the cops. The Oakland P.D., in the person of Patrolman Monte Beers, responded in short order. While checking out the perpetrator's point of entry, Officer Beers later reported, he spotted some long-leafed plants growing in redwood boxes on the balcony in the rear of the house. They were not zinnias. To Officer Beers' trained...
...view of the gentlemen who fashioned this pop quasi-documentary set to music, Eva was spunky, iron-willed, flagrantly corrupt and a canny mistress of horizontal levitation. With few visible qualms, Evita trades on the voguish temper of the age, which holds that however sleazy, venal or decadent a person is, his or her rise to the top confers chic, even upon moral carrion...