Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government, the territory's hard-core white taxi drivers' union advertised for black drivers for the first time. Meanwhile, Laurengo Marques' liberal white Democratic Union came out in support of a Frelimo government. That organization mapped plans to stem the exodus of skilled whites. As Mozambican Samuel Ihanga put it: "At last Africans can run their own country. But we don't want the whites to go. We need everybody...
After paying tribute to his colleagues and to the committee staff, Ervin was presented with a 10-lb. sausage by Committee Counsel Samuel Dash, in recognition of White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler's denunciation of the committee's special report on Rebozo as "warmed-over baloney." Then Sam Ervin delivered a short speech, quoting right and left from his favorite writings, and it was over...
...Samuel Rosenberg's Naked Is the Best Disguise: The Death and Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes (Bobbs-Merrill; $8.95) is one of the more ingenious rummagings through the great detective's lodgings at 221 B Baker Street. Rosenberg is an amateur literary bloodhound who once made his living heading off plagiarism suits for a film company-by proving that both plaintiff and defendant had stolen from older sources. He now makes a most convincing case that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the ex-eye doctor who created the world's most famous sleuth, was really "a compulsive self-revealing...
Although he is not a Marxist, Leontief was one of a handful of Harvard economists who spoke last year in behalf of Samuel S. Bowles, associate professor of economics, and other radical economists seeking faculty positions in the generally conservative department...
...Stage 5 at Hollywood's Samuel Goldwyn Studios, the children's show Sigmund was being shot. Then an electrical fire started, and flames soon surrounded set, actors and crew. In next to no time, Fireman Steve McQueen came to the rescue. Rehearsing for his role as fire chief in The Towering Inferno, McQueen had been training on another lot with Peter Lucarelli, battalion chief of the Los Angeles fire department. When Lucarelli sped off to the real fire, Steve tagged along, followed by Wife Ali McGraw. Donning helmet and coat, he joined firefighters and helped pull the hoses...