Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cambridge landlords and large property owners have made donations to several anti-rent control incumbents. Property owner David Lichter donated $100 to City Councilor Leonard J. Russell's campaign and Harry Katis, a trustee for Potomac Realty Trust, gave the campaign $150. Henry Shea, who said Wednesday he owns property in Cambridge but refused to say what kind, contributed $100 to Sullivan's campaign...
...walked swiftly to the podium and smiled at the audience. His face was a pale Russian winter's landscape, his blue eyes shone mischievously. He turned toward his colleagues and, with a sturdy slash of his baton, launched into a high-speed, raucous overture that seemed to roil the Potomac. It was strictly show-biz razzmatazz, a pastiche stitched together by Leonard Bernstein from his 1976 musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The show had not fared well on Broadway, and the music culled from it might have passed unremarked?except that the enraptured man on the podium was the renowned cellist...
...wait! The battle of machines is escalating. In Virginia, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. is testing for 90 days a service named "Dial-a-Busy." A patron who wants no calls dials a number, which activates equipment that sounds a fake busy signal if someone phones. To have the buzz turned off, the subscriber dials the special number again. If the test works out, the service will probably be expanded, providing privacy seekers with an alternative to disconnecting their phones...
...Beltrante: "If I can get a person's full name, date and place of birth, and Social Security number, I can find out anything else I want to know." Just that much was enough for him to begin unraveling the finances of Robert D. Johnson, a former Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. employee involved in a $26 million wine-importing scheme exposed as a fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Beltrante got Johnson's personnel file from a source in the phone company. Then he made contact with half a dozen of his sources in banks and discovered...
Justice was served last week on the quiet banks of the Potomac. In his first public appearance since he resigned from the Supreme Court in November 1975, William O. Douglas, 78, attended the ceremonies dedicating to him the 20,200-acre Chesapeake and Ohio National Historical Park. The hundreds gathered in his honor needed no reminder that it was Douglas who spearheaded a campaign to save the 184-mile towpath along the C&O canal from becoming a highway-in 1954 he led conservationists on an eight-day hike from Georgetown to Cumberland, Md., to publicize the cause...