Word: shakedowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shakedown Cruise for the Carter Crew...
...Shakedown...
...more than 75 seniors who worked on the fundraising drive, Richard W. Edelman '76, said yesterday that "there was no shakedown. Just an effort by all the fundraisers to get their friends interested...
...Reported TIME Senior Correspondent John Steele: "The candidates were talking about serious issues with considerable forthrightness and a minimum of humbug," while the voters were "listening rather closely, asking serious questions and getting serious answers." Nevertheless, the issues were not defined as clearly as they will be in the shakedown process of later primaries. Boston Bureau Chief Sandra Burton saw the nation's "quirkiest, contrariest and most stubbornly individualistic voters" making their choices mainly on the basis of personality and character...
Easy Prey. The Army's shakedown capital-so far-has been Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., where 34 sergeants and one second lieutenant were investigated. Eleven of the men under scrutiny (including the lieutenant) have been fully cleared; three others have been cleared but could be recharged. Four are still under investigation, and another four -including a staff sergeant accused of taking $275-are awaiting their day in court. But twelve have been reprimanded or similarly punished, and Staff Sergeant Marshall Wilhelm has been convicted of receiving about $60 in shakedown money, fined $320 and brought down by one grade...