Word: ran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Truck Driver Calvin Knapp ran a write-in, word-of-mouth campaign last November for the unpaid job of constable of Michigan's Novi township. He won, but the satisfaction of victory was tempered by a $300 fine for having failed to form the proper committees and to file the right reports. Dave Darsky, who ran a losing race for the Berkley school board, contends that his sole campaign expense was maybe "a little extra dog food" for his poodle Abner, who wore a sandwich board proclaiming VOTE FOR DARSKY. HE'LL WORK LIKE A DOG FOR YOUR...
...requires all candidates to form campaign and finance committees and file a final financial statement. But hundreds of candidates who ran for obscure posts were not even aware of the intricacies of the new law. Many of them now are refusing to pay their fines...
...head in a howling market place the Arabs have put themselves back a thousand and one years in the eyes of the startled, revolted world." Later, the Express located a German-born woman in London who had been a governess to the Saudi royal family. The newspaper ran her narrative under the rubric "the real story by the woman who knew the secrets in the heart of the tragic princess...
During the early days of automotion, battery-powered cars were the rage: in 1900, fully a third of the autos in New York City, Boston and Chicago ran on electricity. Now, in the era of the oil crisis, the electric auto has started to return, on drawing boards and occasionally on the road, moving slowly but polluting not at all. The Postal Service operates 380 electric Jeeps, and at least ten U.S. firms produce electrics for adventuresome customers. But electric cars are a long way from mass production. Who wants a car that cannot...
...publicity is continuing. Last week New West and New York magazines ran a seven-page expose on Begelman, charging that his recent rip-offs were not a "mental aberration," as he claimed, but fitted a long-term pattern, dating back to his days as Judy Garland's agent in the early 1960s. Drawing mainly on files and canceled checks supplied by Garland's former husband Sid Luft, the article asserted that Begelman and a partner, Freddie Fields, had fleeced the singer of large amounts. Meanwhile the Los Angeles County district attorney was investigating the latest Begelman case but was finding...