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When Frank Sinatra, 56, retired his voice from public performance in 1971, he said that every thinking man needs a fallow period. But after a suitable period of lying fallow, the Chairman of the Board woke up one morning and found that he had "been replaced as the nation's singing idol." It was time to begin his comeback career. Following a 1973 White House command performance and a TV special, Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back, Sinatra made his first nightclub appearance in three years at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace. Last week, after a standing ovation from...
...early last year by Leo Rugendorf, 58, a Mafia operative who oversaw the gang's activities. He reached Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Art Petacque and reported that Hohimer, shortly after the murder, had said to him: "They'll get me for the Valerie Percy murder. The girl woke up, and I hit her on the top of the head with a pistol." After Petacque interviewed Rugendorf, he arranged for him to be questioned by state police investigators. Early this year, Rugendorf, near death from heart disease and diabetes, again fingered Hohimer, this time from a stretcher...
...Green icemen made their first goal early in the first period against an unwary Crimson goalkeeper, Brian Petrovek, but Petrovek woke up--as did his teammates--and kept the Big Green from scoring more than one more point the rest of the game...
...discouraged during the first half but woke up in the second half," coach Pippi O'Conner said yesterday. "They were better than we were, but we played much better in the second half...
...When I woke up this morning and scanned The Boston Globe, I received a little jolt. It wasn't because the Arabs and Jews were devastatingly blowing each other up again. I could handle that. Nor was the source President Nixon's search for a successor to Exspiro Agnew. Since I knew he wouldn't choose his wife (at a time like this, the country can't stand Pat), what did it matter? In fact, nothing on page one so much as gave me a shiver...