Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prosecutor Archibald Cox was fired, his senior aides stripped all personal pictures from their office walls. They thought that their investigation had ended and that they would soon be evicted. Even after Leon Jaworski was appointed special prosecutor, the pictures stayed down. Last week they were back-an eloquent sign that he has been accepted by the men and women that Cox left behind. Nor has Jaworski been disappointed in the staff he inherited. He declares: "These are people of unusual caliber...
...areas and industries most in need, probably in the Northeast and on the West Coast. Existing legislation merely authorized the Administration to allocate fuel, but Nixon has used that power sparingly and reluctantly, and the program has faltered. The new legislation, which the President has said he will sign, includes gasoline and crude oil, both of which are now allocated on a loose voluntary basis...
...crowded police-court docket, said Mark Twain, is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty. The current season would seem to bear him out, with a slight twist. There is brisk betting and plentiful money riding on a schedule that is up to its antenna in crooks and crime, cops and private eyes, crusading attorneys and special investigators...
...later, Falk, then 26, landed a role in an off-Broadway production of The Iceman Cometh, and for the next eight years he worked steadily, mostly as a heavy, in TV and films. At one point Columbia Pictures summoned him to Hollywood for a screen test but did not sign him. "For the same price," said Columbia's boss Harry Cohn, "I can get an actor with two eyes...
...glad I didn't go down to Providence this weekend. Driving at 50 mph on I-95 after a summer of crusing through Montana and Nevada (whose only speed limit sign I saw instructed motorists to drive at a "reasonable and prudent" speed, which, of course, I totally ignored on route to setting a new personal landspeed record of 120 mph, downhill) was not my idea of fun. Neither was getting up at 8 a.m. to get to the soccer game on time, something I rarely do. Nor was Providence itself particularly enticing...