Word: tipoffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the FBI began investigating a ring of counterfeiters, agents found no bogus $20 bills but something far more valuable: entry cards to Louisville's Churchill Downs. There could be no surer tipoff that Kentucky Derby time is at hand. The counterfeiters were betrayed by their brazenness. They sold phony $50 tickets to an imaginary grandstand at the 105th Run for the Roses this weekend. But their act of daring is soon to be outdone by a few intrepid horse owners. They plan to put up entries against Spectacular Bid, one of the most heavily favored colts...
Princeton continued its spurt after the second-half tipoff, racing to 39-25 and 47-29 leads behind the shooting of Sowinski and guard Rich Rizzuto...
...information is dropped between the soup and nuts at a Georgetown dinner party. At one such soirée, Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter learned that former L B J Staffer Joseph Califano had been asked to go secretly to Plains to talk with the President-elect. The tipoff: Califano was tracked down at the same party by a White House telephone operator...
Eller and Haugen estimate that 90% of dinner-table fatalities could be prevented, if doctors and laymen alike would not immediately assume that the victim is suffering from coronary thrombosis. The combination of eating and the inability to talk or breathe is a sure tipoff, they say; a genuine heart attack victim can usually speak. Backslapping is a waste of time, unless the victim is upside down, and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation is like "trying to pour water into a corked bottle." The food must be retrieved-with fingers or, if necessary, with a pair of tweezers. After a year...
...song was the tipoff. As United Auto Workers negotiators left the Chrysler bargaining suite late last week and trooped into the press room, some started belting out Solidarity Forever, the old union strike song. Looking grim and tired, U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock revealed the bad news. Contrary to all earlier predictions, the union was striking Chrysler Corp., the nation's third-largest auto manufacturer. This year's bargaining sessions were the "most complex" in the union's history, Woodcock said, forcing negotiators to cope not only with basic pay demands but also with such nonmoney issues...