Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other Pennsylvania political figures are awaiting trial. State Senator Francis Lynch and former State Representative Stephen Wojdak have been charged with extorting $15,000 from a dentist to obtain his son's admission to the Temple University School of Dentistry. The U.S. investigation is continuing, and the pressure has shifted from the dean's office to the statehouse...
...this one in your pipe and smoke it: And then there's the one about the guy who, strapped for cash, wanted to get home to New York in a hurry. Let's call him "Steve." (His real name was "Stephen," but he'll kill me if I print it.) So Steve (I'll just call him "S.", strapped for cash, wants to get to New York in a hurry. So what does he do? (Background--he has no money in the bank, and he has no credit cards.) So he goes to Logan Airport, gets on the four...
...state-run betting operations; the loan shark's 20%-a-week bite seems almost reasonable to a businessman who must raise cash fast but cannot qualify for a loan at a bank. Abetting this ethical blind spot are the romanticized accounts of the Mafia in novels and movies. Says Stephen Schiller, executive director of the Chicago crime commission: "The public doesn't realize how bad these people are. The Mob makes for good talk. We have made these bums folk heroes." Adds Ralph Salerno, formerly the New York City police department's leading Mafia expert: "America has come over...
...STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM...
...latest social history, Stephen Birmingham does for the black rich what he did for the Irish rich in Real Lace, the Jewish rich in Our Crowd, and the Wasp rich in The Right People. With a raconteur's ear for a good anecdote and an interior decorator's eye for a well-placed objet d'art, he classifies the values of the wealthy blacks, their habits, schools, clubs, skin tones, accents, charities and floor plans...