Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city. Taken by surprise, Byrne scrambled to find someone to run against him. Turned down by her first two choices, who were understandably loath to get caught in the crossfire, she settled on Alderman Edward Burke, 35, a lawyer and a former policeman who favors tailored suits and vest pocket watch fobs. Like other members of the machine, he had been at odds with Byrne. During her primary campaign to unseat Mayor Bilandic, Byrne sneered at the ambitious and smooth-talking Burke, calling him a member of "an evil cabal," that surrounded Mayor Bilandic. Asked how the mayor could change...
Vegas 21 is a pocket calculator that will add up your check stubs, or if that seems dreary, deal hands of blackjack. Punch in your stake-why be cheap? Try $50,000-and start betting. The odds, as in real life, favor the house, and two robots in camel's-hair overcoats come around to break your legs...
...Star Trek--the Motion Picture" opens today at approximately 900 movie theaters around the country; Paramount and Pocket Books hope that "Star Trek"--the fad--will open at the same time...
...Pocket Books and Paramount are counting on those 35 million fans to snap up "Star Trek" paraphernalia. These include 17 different books, a soundtrack album and a "make your own Star Trek costume" book, Suzanne Gordon, publicity agent for Paramount, said yesterday...
...Pocket Book titles include "Star Trek," the book of the movie; a Star Trek calendar and "The Official Star Trek Enterprise Officer's Datebook 1980." Deborah Gallagher, sales clerk for Harvard Bookstore, estimated sales of the novelized Star Trek at about 15 a week, an above average record...