Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took the trouble, Mrs. Haley explains, to learn CB language from a book. As a true contester, she made that extra effort, though, she freely admits, a knack at writing "picturesque speech," sharpened by a correspondence course at the All-American School of Writing in Philadelphia, helped a good deal...
...from the same schools but engineered a three-year sentence after agreeing to reveal his boss's dealings. Elko has told investigators that Flood was paid more than $100,000 for having pressured federal agencies to help various constituents, contractors and businessmen. Grand juries in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia are now probing Flood's activities, and Government investigators believe they can indict the Congressman on additional charges...
...fire in the U.S. At one shareholders' meeting after another, critics hurl epithets ("partner in apartheid," "friend of discrimination"). The N.A.A.C.P., hardening its stand, now calls for a total withdrawal of Yankee firms from white-dominated parts of South Africa. The Rev. Leon Sullivan, a black minister from Philadelphia and a director of General Motors, has been urging a strict code of conduct for U.S. companies in the land of apartheid and demanding that they actively help black workers overcome various bars to forming unions. Anti-apartheid protests stand to intensify on campuses this fall, and many universities...
Mike Bruhert twirled a four-hit shutout for the New York Mets as they sacked the front-running Phillies, 2-0, in Philadelphia. The loss engineered by the bat of ex-Yankee Elliott Maddox, cut the Phillies' National League East lead to a tenuous two games as the surging Pirates commandeered a 5-3 win over the Montreal Expos...
Speedier trials would also help witnesses less patient than Patricia Finck, a Philadelphia A & P cashier who went back to court 46 times to get two stickup men convicted. "After three or four continuances of a case," says Patrick Healy, the executive director of the National District Attorneys Association, "unless you're really a devoted witness, you'll kiss it off. After all, what's in it for you? This business of civic pride goes so far. And the smart defendant and the smart defense lawyer will delay a case to death...