Word: trails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...search is relentless. He has followed the trail to the chamber of Senator Russell Long, where he exchanged a few bad jokes with the Kingfish's son and then listened to advice about cutting spending. "I'm running this inflation fight with a roll of dimes for the phone and a pencil and pad," Strauss said about his own example of restraint. He has looked across at General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy and preached a little about corporate citizenship. Murphy, it turned out, got there before Strauss did. "We will meet the President's program on price...
...Brigatisti, however, did leave a new trail of blood with two hit-and-run attacks. In the first, Girolamo Mechelli, 54, a Christian Democratic politician, was jumped by two gunmen who pumped five bullets into his legs. In Turin, two men and a woman shot Sergio Palmieri, 41, a Fiat labor relations official, also in the legs, as he left for work. At week's end these terrorists were still at large. Authorities, however, issued arrest warrants for six men and three women who were charged with Moro's abduction and the killing of his five bodyguards...
...agents soon discovered that two targets, Teamster Boss Frank Fitzsimmons and a powerful Ohio Teamster leader, were insulated from the probe by their "informant's relationship" with high FBI officials. The agents say that the Ohio Teamster leader manipulated the investigation by putting the bureau on the trail of his union enemies, small fry who were not essential to the case. Many agents question the value of using union chiefs as informants, insisting that they gain immunity from investigation but provide little in return...
Annie Hall fans, be brave. After all, as the final fadeout made clear, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton were not meant for each other. Now Keaton has a new admirer, Hollywood heartthrob, Warren Beatty. When the pair went restaurant hopping in Beverly Hills, Supersnapper Ron Galella was on their trail in a flash. "This is a paparazzo attack," said Galella. "I'm not going to make it easy," retorted Beatty, and ordered Keaton to lower her head. Keaton, who had stayed in Los Angeles after winning her Oscar, then retreated to a recording studio to make her first album...
...emcee. "This is not my regular line of work," he drawled, and added with a grin: "Some people might think I do this better." On hand for both a concert and an impromptu jam session were country performers who had twanged for Carter on the campaign trail, including Tennessee's Charlie Daniels. "When I was broke and didn't have any money for my campaign," recalled Jimmy, "Charlie Daniels gave a benefit performance for me. I might not be President today without his help." Nor without that of Loretta Lynn, who last week launched into a First Family...