Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Bailey, Browning won important victories by getting Judge Carter to admit the tapes from Tania, as well as some of her papers that were confiscated at the Harrises' apartment. The prosecutor effectively cited this evidence to show that Patty not only extolled the S.L.A. but celebrated her role in the bank robbery. She had been acting, Tania said, as "a soldier in the people's army." Browning also produced a witness named Zigurd Berzins, who told the jury that Patty, for someone who supposedly was forced to go along on the raid, was unusually well prepared...
...Pressman, a secret but active Communist who recommended Hiss for his first Government job, played a major role in defense efforts to discredit Chambers...
That finding is disputed by some Administration economists, who contend that recession hurt the industry more than imports did. Paul MacAvoy, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, faults the ITC for "never even questioning" the role of industry price policy. ITC data indicate that on most of the products concerned, domestic prices were rising last year while the prices of imports either were falling or going up less than the made-in-America steel. Richard Simmons, president of Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp., the largest U.S. specialty-steel producer, challenges that finding: he says his company cut prices...
...film stops well before the link to Nixon himself is established, leaving an odd sense of unfinished history. Unlike the book, the movie gives the impression that in all journalism only the Post's investigative reporters were working to expose Watergate. It also runs the risk of taking the role of the press, while crucial, almost too seriously...
...oldest?self. Approaching 40, he may currently be the world's ranking movie star. He, his wife Lola and their three children jet back and forth between their Fifth Avenue apartment and their retreat outside Provo, Utah, near the ski resort he owns and where he revels in his role as conservationist and spokesman for various good causes...