Word: philadelphia
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...tough ex-district attorney from Philadelphia, Sprague, 51, is the chief counsel and staff director of the Select Committee on Assassinations. During the past few months, he has shocked the House by acting like a Congress man. Complained Speaker Tip O'Neill: "Sprague was running the committee." Sprague demanded a "bare bones" $13 million budget for two years, lobbied House members in a grating fashion, and freely granted press interviews...
...Army contract for a helicopter known as UTTAS (Utility Tactical Transport Aircraft System). In December the Army announced the winner: Sikorsky of Stratford, Conn., which stands to reap perhaps $4 billion in sales over the next ten years. The loser, Boeing Vertol in Ridley Township, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia, must now contend with doubts about its survival as a primary aircraft maker. To gauge the impact of the biggest helicopter award in 20 years, TIME Correspondent Eileen Shields visited both plants. Her report...
Last spring, after some uneven seasons, Les Canadiens returned the Stanley Cup to Quebec by sweeping the Philadelphia Flyers. This season Les Canadiens have outdistanced the rest of the league. On one November night when they were playing St. Louis, the Parti Québécois, which supports independence for the province, swept an election. The temptation to see Les Canadiens as symbolic of the independence movement stirred again. Again, Les Canadiens were more than a hockey team. Now they represented political activism. Such theories are impervious to everything but facts...
...Serpent's Egg is the costliest ($4 million) and most audacious movie Bergman has attempted. It is the story of a Jewish trapeze artist from Philadelphia (David Carradine) who is trapped in the Berlin of 1923, when Nazism was metastasizing. "I am making a horror film," says Bergman...
...favored Western Conference squad staged a come-from-behind, 125-124 victory over the East in the NBA All-Star game in Milwaukee yesterday afternoon. Philadelphia's Julius Erving, playing forward for the East, received the game's Most Valuable Player award...