Word: public
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Mardi Gras dead in all but name, there was little celebrating in carnival town. Police huddled in small groups around headquarters and the precinct stations while national guardsmen carrying M-16 rifles patrolled public buildings. On Canal Street, New Orleans' main boulevard, the bleachers erected for the parades stood empty, bereft of bunting. The jazz clubs and hookers on Bourbon Street were having a hard time keeping up spirits-or selling them. "It's our first time in New Orleans and we're heartbroken," mourned Robin Holabird, 25, who had come from Reno with her husband...
...kept the money at the airport over a weekend, just as the gang had planned. Werner was promised $300,000 for his role. When Gruenewald seemed nervous about keeping his secret, Werner gave him $ 10,000 to buy his silence. Then Werner too began to flash his cash in public. He paid $10,000 for a GM Sportvan. And he paid in bills, a fact that became known...
...birthday was the perfect time, of course, for John LoGiudice to get punished for chopping down a cherry tree. He found the tree growing wild, about 25 years ago, in the backyard of his house in Queens, N.Y. He transplanted it out to the front, next to the public sidewalk, and there it grew. "We always took care of it," said LoGiudice, 66, a retired milkman. "It was a beautiful tree with pretty flowers blossoming every spring and nice healthy cherries...
...annual rate of 11.4%. Leading the price parade was food, up at an 18.2% rate. Contends David Grove, a former IBM vice president who heads his own economic consulting firm: " To get inflation under control, everyone has to sacrifice. There has to be a willingness by the public to forgo tax relief, tolerate tighter money, and not put tremendous pressure on the Government to step up spending for pet programs." Adds Beryl Sprinkel, executive vice president of Chicago's Harris Bank: "The key question is, what happens when unemployment starts moving up to 7% or 7.5%? Will the Administration...
...emphasis is on believable performance. In the leading role, Lynn-Holly Johnson, 19, formerly with the Ice Capades troupe, is more than adequate both skating and acting. She is slender and winsome in the manner of other young gymnasts, dancers and skaters who have lately captured the public's imagination and whose seeming fragility so interestingly contrasts with their fierce determination and dazzling technique...