Word: wente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence of payoffs to U.S. Congressmen, officials and journalists by the Shah. The Washington embassy files were bare, with the exception of lists of people who received mundane things-champagne, perfume, caviar-for Christmas. However, we are determined to track down huge amounts of money which went to Washington, and we have asked the FBI to help us. Some $19 million was spent by the ex-Shah's secret police [SAVAK] in 1976-77. The FBI wants to know whether the Alien Registration Act has been violated, and we want to know what SAVAK Chief Mansur Rafizadeh did with...
...biggest thing in my life was meeting Gracie. I don't think I would have made it if I hadn't met her. I'd have remained a small-time vaudeville act and, when small-time vaudeville went out, I'd have gone out with it. I might have been a cutter of ladies' dresses. But whatever it would have been, it wouldn't have been great. Gracie made...
...often as his socks. The original Nathan Birnbaum became Harry Pierce, who became Willy Williams, who became Willie Delight. Willie Delight? "Yah," says George. "There was a guy by that name who had 2,000 cards printed up that said, 'Willie Delight, in Vaudeville.' But then he went into some other business, and I bought the cards for a dollar. When they were used up, I changed my name again." He was George Burns when he met and, in 1926, married Gracie Allen, an Irish Catholic comedienne from San Francisco...
Gracie became the screwball and George her straight man. One of their skits went like this. Gracie: "My sister Bessie couldn't come today because her canary is hatching an ostrich...
...Soviets are approaching the Olympic challenge much as the ancient pharaohs went about building pyramids, with single-minded intensity and a cast of thousands. A total of 99 construction projects, either new buildings or major re-buildings, have been undertaken in connection with the games. Of these, 76 are in Moscow, where the competition is centered. The rest are spread among the four other Olympic cities-Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk and Tallinn...