Word: satchel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House. Directed by former White House Employee Jack Gleason, the effort was conducted before present campaign-financing laws became effective, and no accounting of it has ever been made public. The story of how the money was raised and what became of it is presumably still contained in a satchel of reports that Gleason delivered to former White House Counsel Charles Colson in December 1970. Cox's investigators believed that the Town House operation is potentially one of the most explosive scandals in Washington, but White House lawyers refused to provide information about it on the ground that...
...Mariette Hartley); the head stewardess (Yvette Mimieux), once in love with the captain (Charlton Heston), now carrying on with the copilot (Mike Henry); and a certain Sergeant Jerome K. Weber (James Brolin), a bug-eyed benny popper who swills brandy, talks crazy and keeps clutching at a large black satchel stashed under his seat. One among these is a skyjacker. Guess...
...shirt appeared on store counters bearing her likeness. Shortly after Mystery Man "D.B. Cooper" parachuted from a skyjacked Northwest Airlines 727, a T shirt went on sale illustrated with a parachute-borne satchel, a vanishing jet and the question "D.B. Cooper, where...
...Satchel for a Solo. By Frank's account, Hugh Downs, host of the Today show, was indirectly the catalyst for the news shakeup. Downs wanted a break to relax, write and lecture. "We would have kept going under the old format for another year," says Frank, but Downs was adamant about quitting. "I coaxed Frank McGee," Frank admits. McGee takes over Today in October. Brinkley, meanwhile, will assume the job of "commentator" for NBC News. Next month David Brinkley's Journal will be seen as a separate segment of most of the nightly newscasts, NBC's riposte...
Thoughtful and urbane, John Chancellor, 44, has a satchel of credentials for his new solo job. He broke into journalism in his home town, Chicago, as a copy boy for the Sun-Times. He was sacked during an economy drive in 1950 and took a temporary job with NBC as a news writer. He was soon signed on full time and found himself out on the streets covering fires and chasing criminals. When Monitor was started on NBC radio, Chancellor was among the first newsmen assigned to that novel and imaginative operation. Driving a mobile unit rigged to look like...