Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter of the Vatican cameos for His Holiness the Pope, as I noted in my modest chronicle The Hound of the Baskervilles; he ad elucidated The Adventure of the Second Stain for the Prime Minister. We had also known curious cases. There was, for example, the puzzle of the politician, the lighthouse and the trained cormorant, referred to in The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger; and the singularity of Isadora Persano, the journalist and duelist who was found stark mad with a matchbox in front of him that contained a remarkable worm, said to be unknown to science (The Problem...
There is, of course, the danger that Simon will suffer instant overexposure. He is beginning to sound like a politician at the end of a long campaign, answering the same questions by repeating the same phrases ("We want to be able to prepare for the worst" or "The day of cheap energy is over"). If people stop listening, that could badly hurt Simon's program, which depends greatly on voluntary cooperation. In particular, public boredom with Simon could foil his attempts to dispel the growing suspicion that the energy shortage is a phony...
...seemed "more like a coronation than an inauguration." It capped a lifetime of fighting for black rights, first as a union organizer at the Ford Motor Co. in the late 1930s, later as a leader of the leftist National Negro Labor Council in the '50s and as a politician in the '60s. A state senator since 1964, he fought for passage of an open-housing law and against a ban on busing children to integrate schools. In both cases, whites from the Detroit area were among his leading opponents. But no one knows better than Young that Detroit...
...taped conversation with officials of the U.S. Department of Justice in 1969, Cain admitted that his Mafia and police careers were inextricably linked. Through the influence of a Democratic politician in Chicago's inner city First Ward, he got a job as a detective in 1956. He soon became the Mob's bag man in the police department, paying off detectives to insure freedom of operation. He was finally compelled to quit the force in 1960, when he and another detective were discovered wiretapping the offices of Mayor Richard Daley's Commissioner of Investigations to secure possibly...
...took over the reins of day-to-day government six months ago-Franco himself retains ultimate authority-Carrero Blanco quickly replaced those officials he thought were liberal, or even slightly forward looking, with ironclad conservatives. "Carrero Blanco never had an original idea in his life," said one Spanish politician last week, "unless one defines as original the decision to be the unquestioning strong right arm of General Franco...