Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manhattan this week, heavy moneymen and big sports figures are gathering at a secret dinner for Quarterback turned Congressman Jack Kemp. His four-minute segment about taxes on Cronkite's show last Wednesday jiggled hearts as far away as Illinois. "Charismatic," said a middle-aged elephant. Participants in the Republican Tidewater Conference in Easton, Md., say there was a Kennedy-like stir when Kemp strode...
When Michael G. Thevis was imprisoned in 1974 for interstate transportation of obscene material, lawmen figured they had put the flamboyant peep-show operator out of sight for some time. Not only was he sent to jail for 8½ years, but further investigations into his alleged Mob connections raised the possibility of new indictments. It now seems clear that Thevis, 46, was not turned on by his legal prospects. And so last week, while a federal grand jury dutifully continued its probe into his racketeering, two more juries were investigating how on April 28 the paunchy, balding Thevis managed...
...three deputies and three New Albany policemen gave the porno king appropriate treatment by watching through a one-way mirror. The night before Thevis was to be returned to Springfield-he had lost the case and was ordered to pay $675,000 to insurance companies and a former peep-show competitor-he was let out of his cell to make a phone call. He never returned. Three hours after he was last seen, someone thought to notify the police...
...American academics are hoping to show the Soviets that they cannot continue to pursue these kinds of injustices, Lawrence Tribe, professor of Law, said yesterday...
...weatherman had it in for the Crimson--it never got to show its late-inning strength. Umpire Joe Driscoll of Arlington watched the rain fall not-so-gently on the grassy plains of Holyoke High for four innings before suspending the contest at the end of the sixth, prompting coach Loyal Park to moan, "What happened out there was inexcusable. And a local guy did it to us." And he had a point--the wet stuff was falling no harder in the sixth than it had been in the eventually-fatal third when the Blue Hens scored their...