Word: sam
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...play much of a part in funding any election campaigns. The $6 million authorized by the Administration for handouts to Italian moderates is small change compared with past contributions to Italian parties by U.S. corporations, labor unions and other sources-"A bottle of Scotch at Christmas from Uncle Sam," as one diplomat put it. (It is also considerably less than the $27 million the Contmunists reportedly received from the Soviet embassy for campaign expenses in the 1972 general election.) Anti-Communist Italian politicians testily denied that any CIA contributions were-or would be-accepted. The Republican Party went...
There is an earnest, greedy producer, Oscar (Sam Levene), with a treacherous streak of total affection for the Cavendishes. And that's not the end of it, by half. In 1927 they did not have to count the cast. A Royal Family is a love letter to the theater and those who, contrary to all sound reason, persist in loving...
...West Coast party girl in the early 1960s, blue-eyed raven-haired Judith Immoor Campbell was known to swing in high places. Mobster John Roselli squired her to Miami, Palm Springs and other expensive watering holes. She was frequently with Roselli's friend and boss, Chicago Mafia Don Sam ("Momo") Giancana. By her own description, she had a "close personal" relationship with an even more powerful figure: John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the U.S. "To me he was Jack Kennedy," she said last week. "He wasn't the President...
Todd Hooks flew over the 40 yd. high hurdle track in 5.3 seconds, just nipping second-place finisher Sam Butler for the win. Hooks later sprinted to third place in the 40 yd. dash...
...other ideas have been floating around. Steiner told me--and I don't think he was pulling my leg--that someone called him from Camp Pendleton wondering whether we would take a few hundred refugees. Something about their wanting to see where it all began. Uncle Sam would build the Quonset huts (I can just see it--Bundy House, Rostow House) if we would provide some kind of training. I told Dan to refer the guy to Bob Wood. But you can see why we need to move fast...