Word: welched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Luckily for Jones, as he now acknowledges, "I had good friends in Washington who are lawyers." The firm of Welch & Morgan began a systematic series of motions. Requests were made for a transcript of the grand jury testimony, for a quashing of the indictment, for the suppression of evidence obtained by electronic eavesdropping, and for a bill of particulars from the Justice Department. As each motion was denied, Jones' lawyers appealed to higher courts. The question of admitting the portable radio evidence took four years to reach the U.S. Supreme Court, which let stand a decision allowing...
Until Cronin's decision yesterday, the waitresses had urged a boycott of the restaurant. The union is now asking citizens to patronize Cronin's to demonstrate support for their demands. Patricia Welch, a waitress, said yesterday that Cronin expressed a willingness to work out a contract in response to their demands...
...waitresses would also like to see a 15 per cent tip included in the bill as it is payment for a service and not a gratuity. The Harvard "preppie" for whom Welch says Cronin's exists "always leaves a tip, and it always amounts to a dime or fifteen cents...
...leave. A few girls think the whole idea is rather kinky. As No. 32, who has since quit in disgust, admits, "Working here did amazing things to my ego. I don't have that good a body, but men kept complimenting me. I had visions of being Raquel Welch. I had regular customers that I had to arrange classes around. I always came over here after lunch and work to catch the business lunch and rush-hour commuter trade." Says No. 144, as she waits for her father to take her home for dinner: "It is kind of exciting...
...Bazaar a lot further. "I have one mandate: to make the magazine more exciting," he says. "It's been essentially dull for the last several years. All our covers looked alike. They were pictures of pretty girls saying nothing." November's cover, which he chose, was Raquel Welch ("At least she's alive and well and known," says Brady), while January's will feature a college girl in blue jeans wearing a political campaign button...