Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sometimes for fairly arcane reasons. Last week John Leonard, editor of the New York Times Book Review, stood eyeball to eyeball with CBS on the issue. Writing in his periodic column for the Book Review, Leonard looked askance at a personnel agreement that all CBS employees are required to sign. The employee must agree that "any 'Idea' (a writing, discovery, invention, design or intellectual or artistic property or creation of any kind or nature) which relates to or is suggested by my work for you and which is conceived or created by me while I am employed...
...cash into a borrowed Jeep, and drove north on Interstate 400 for some 30 miles. For the last few miles, he picked up an escort-one car carrying two men that drove ahead of him at a distance, another car with one occupant that followed. At an appointed sign, the courier placed both suitcases on the shoulder of the highway. Without waiting to watch the pickup, he turned and drove back to Atlanta...
Across the continent, no such quick and happy ending seemed in store for the distraught family of Patty Hearst - though the week began on a distinctly optimistic note. Relieved by the Symbionese terrorists of their original demand for a "sign of good faith"- a monumental food giveaway to every low-income or aged person or ex-convict in California, which could cost up to $400 million - Randolph Hearst proceded to outline a more modest offer. It was a food-distribution plan, called "People in Need," or PIN, modeled on a highly successful Washington State program created in 1970 to provide...
...when Radford was questioned by the plumbers, according to Welander, the yeoman turned the inquiry round by detonating the bombshell that he had been stealing documents on orders of his superiors since 1970. Ehrlichman then called in Welander and demanded that he sign a statement on White House stationery that, in the admiral's words to the committee, admitted "totally false charges of 'political spying' on the White House." Welander refused to sign...
Coatless in a raw February wind, the Prime Minister hoisted himself onto the back of a green Land Rover in the courtyard of the North Ealing Conservative Club. The wind had long since whipped the hand-lettered WELCOME TED HEATH sign from the club's red-tiled roof, but his audience of 150 constituency workers loyally shivered through Heath's homiletic. Winding up the set-piece campaign talk, he proclaimed that thanks to the oil that will be gushing from the North Sea before the end of the decade, "we are going to be one of the fortunate...