Word: sam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look-at-this-guy response--a comforting thought. But you never feel sorry for him. He understands somehow where he would be if life treated him better, and he is never lost, never helpless. He always has a home, somewhere, at the movies in Play It Again, Sam, or his 1973 Greenwich Village health food store in Sleeper...
...letter to Committee Chairman Sam Ervin, the President declared that producing the material "would unquestionably destroy any vestige of confidentiality of presidential communications, thereby irreparably impairing the constitutional function of the office of the presidency...
...deal shrewdly with Atlanta's white establishment. As a tangible earnest of its willingness to cooperate, Coca-Cola Board Chairman J. Paul Austin gathered 30 business colleagues together last week and helped offset the remaining $30,000 debt of the Jackson campaign. In his defeat of Mayor Sam Massell last October, Jackson polled 21% of the white vote. That was a considerable achievement. Massell gave the contest an appallingly racist tinge by branding Jackson a do-nothing and a potential black firebrand in a last-ditch effort to scare up white support. The Massell strategy backfired with the voters...
...gallons, were hijacked within a week. Price gouging by station owners has become distressingly common. Miamians complain of having to pay $1 a gallon or being charged a $2 "service fee" before a station attendant will wait on them. In Chicago, a U.S. Attorney filed suit against Policeman Sam McBride, who moonlights as owner of a gas station. McBride was accused by patrons of trying to dodge price controls by "giving away" gas: six gallons with a bar of soap that the customer had to buy for $6; three gallons with a container of all-purpose cleaner for $3; five...
...Benny, 39 going on 80, has finally met his match in parsimony-the Internal Revenue Service. Benny, who for more than 60 years has capitalized on his radio/TV reputation as the ultimate tightwad to amass a fortune in seven figures, is now being sued for back taxes by Uncle Sam...