Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most reliable pre-election poll in Massachusetts may have been conducted with chocolate chip cookies. Vincent D'Olimpio Jr., a Hyannis baker, wrote the names of the gubernatorial candidates in icing on the cookies, allowing customers to buy their preference. Democrat Edward King had 295 cookie-buying supporters compared with Republican Frank Hatch's 287-close to the actual margin for King in the election...
Dominica is only the first of a series of independent ministates about to pop up in the Caribbean. Within the next twelve months or so it will be followed by St. Lucia (pop. 120,000), St. Vincent (pop. 100,000), Antigua (pop. 75,000) and St. Kitts-Nevis (pop. 50,000). All the islands have been British Associated States, and all are leaving London's paternal embrace hungry for aid. They share one other trait: a capacity to cause problems for the 26-member OAS, which they all plan to join. Each will receive a vote equal to that...
...Vincent Carey '82, who is in Stillman Infirmary with symptoms of salmonella infection, said yesterday he fell ill Monday. He said he usually eats in the Union...
...daughter, the Oxford-educated Obolensky fled his native country after battling Bolsheviks as a guerrilla fighter. The tall, mustachioed aristocrat subsequently divorced Princess Catherine, married the daughter of American Financier John Jacob Astor, settled in the U.S. and worked with his brother-in-law, the real estate entrepreneur Vincent Astor. During World War II, Obolensky at 53 became the U.S. Army's oldest paratrooper and earned the rank of colonel. He started his own public relations firm in New York in 1949, handling accounts like Piper-Heidsieck champagne. "Serge," a friend once remarked, "could be successful selling umbrellas...
Special Counsel Vincent Alto predicted last June that his investigation of fraud, theft and mismanagement in the General Services Administration would result in scores of indictments in about eight weeks. But eight weeks passed, and the score was still zero. At the end of August, GSA investigators said that a packet of indictments would be handed down within a fortnight. A fortnight passed, but there still were no indictments. Last week Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti indicated to a Senate subcommittee on federal spending practices that the GSA probe had been stalled, and indictments could be delayed for another eight...