Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specific charges against Mandel arose from the secret purchase in 1971 of Maryland's Marlboro race track by four of his friends, who were convicted, along with Mandel, on similar charges last week: W. Dale Hess, former Democratic leader of the state's house of delegates; Hess's business partners, Harry and Bill Rodgers; and Irvin Kovens, allegedly the principal financier of the race-track purchase. Also found guilty was Attorney Ernest N. Cory Jr., who did legal work for the group. In 1972, at Mandel's urging, Maryland's state legislature granted an extra...
Mandel received approximately $350,000 in favors from his race-track cronies-including jewelry, clothing, plane tickets and shares in business ventures. During six grueling days of testimony, he insisted that these were merely innocent gifts, but the jurors were not convinced. After their verdict was announced-following an unusually lengthy deliberation of 13 days-jurors said that the vote was initially 9 to 3 against Mandel, became 11 to 1 and stayed there for six days. The lone holdout told newsmen afterward that he believed the parties were innocent as a matter of conscience, if not as a matter...
...business and government, microcomputers have a central processing unit to do the thinking, an input-output device (typically an electric typewriter connected to a video display screen) for giving instructions and receiving answers, and a memory for storing information. A microcomputer can easily perform such sedentary chores as keeping track of an investment portfolio, maintaining an up-to-date Christmas card list, collating menus or entertaining the kids with a vast Olympiad of electronic games, from TV tennis to Star Trek (destroy the Klingons before they capture the starship Enterprise). Other tasks-reporting on water seepage in the basement, watering...
...once said that my daydreams were the dark side of the moon of Walter Mitty," says Plimpton, 50. "I agree. It's nightmarish, these sports. They are painful, not joyful." Plimpton's latest joyless endeavor is race-car driving. He is revving up a book about the track and plans to get the feel of the pit by competing in the Toyota Pro Celebrity Match Race in Watkins Glen, N.Y., on Oct. 2. Does he think he has any talent at the wheel? "You need to have enormous concentration to be a great driver," says Plimpton. "I daydream...
...author gives the puzzle to retired Chief of Detectives Edward X. ("Iron Balls") Delaney, who spied out the sinner in Sanders' The First Deadly Sin. Delaney's feet are flat, but his intellect is fully arched; there is no doubt he will track down the killer. That certainty is the only real shortcoming of this amiable book, in which Delaney's adoring young wife leaves love notes for her husband in the refrigerator. What might have been a tense and chancy struggle between cop and criminal is, instead, merely an interesting log of police procedure as Delaney...