Word: tornados
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first unit started the vacation tour with a 6-3 victory at the Country Club of Virginia. They continued on their way south through a tornado and driving rainstorm but the weather turned clear for matches with 16th-ranked Clemson and 8th-ranked Georgia...
Always an adept actor, Caine is splendid here. His King, quintessentially seedy, strikes just the proper balance between calculated mediocrity and droll detachment. As Gilbert, Mickey Rooney is equal parts Robinson, Cagney and miniature tornado. It is a broad performance, but Hodges draws firm boundaries for it, which Rooney straddles occasionally but never oversteps. The performance, like the movie itself, deserves to become some crazy kind of minor classic...
...advertisers, the Federal Trade Commission lately has often seemed like a relentless white tornado, working to make them come clean about their products. But the agency's most ambitious undertaking-a program to make thousands of big advertisers produce documentary evidence backing up their claims for product pricing, safety and performance-has so far proved a disappointing dud. Over the past year, the effort has produced a mountain of data but little more than a molehill of definite proof or definitive disproof of product plugs...
Never a Note. The key man in changing Nixon's mind was Secretary of the Treasury John Connally, the Texas tornado who moved into the job early in the year and quickly developed an amazing rapport with the President. A Democrat who had impressed Nixon by helping him find oil money in his 1968 presidential campaign, despite his own belated support of Hubert Humphrey, Connally had earlier turned down Nixon offers to become Secretary of Defense, but did serve impressively on a committee studying reorganization of the Executive Branch. The acquisition of Connally was another Nixon surprise and success, giving...
...that jam, found his groove, and went on to blank the Chicago White Sox 1-0. When he squeaked to No. 21 last week by defeating the Boston Red Sox 5-3 in extra innings, a near capacity crowd of 32,858 showed up in Fenway Park despite tornado alerts and a rainstorm that delayed the start of the game for two hours...