Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...means the agency could devise. Two obvious possibilities: fomenting political upheaval or plotting an assassination. Similarly, the State Department and possibly the FBI and the Pentagon were told that ways should be found to get rid of Castro. The CIA did work with two U.S. Mafia leaders, Sam Giancana and John Roselli, in unsuccessful attempts to kill the Cuban leader...
...later printed sealed grand jury testimony. The testimony centered on a bribery and conspiracy indictment of a Fresno city councilman who was involved in city sewage- and garbage-collection contracts. The case became somewhat complicated when Superior Court Judge Denver C. Peckinpah (brother of "blood and guts" movie director Sam Peckinpah) discovered that one of the Bee newsmen had a passkey that gave him unlimited access to all offices in the courthouse (though a reporter from the Oakland Tribune also carried a similar key). Peckinpah called a hearing at which the newsmen refused to say how they had got hold...
...annual banquet last Saturday, the track team announced its elections of tri-captains for next year: the thinclads chosen to share the posts were Sam Butler, Mel Embree and Joel Peters. Butler has been a standout competitor in the hurdles and the middle-distance events. Peters has contributed strong performances as a middle-distance runner. Embree is a nationally ranked high-jumper who has cleared "2" this year...
Aside from Hooks, Sam Butler and Bill Okerman were the bright spots in the track events of the meet. Butler proved again that he was best at the 440 hurdles as he won in 53.7 and Okerman...
...sensitive a translating job as The Day of the Locust has done, it might have been at least a decent, if not well-liked, movie, it closes in on all the wrong things, and gets at nothing that Fitzgerald did. Only one performance really works and that is Sam Waterston's sensitive and physically correct Nick. He, not Redford, is "better than the whole damn bunch of them...