Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...studies on the genetic effects of radiation. He had known Biologist McMillan for years; as a professor at Northwestern University, he had directed the preparation of her doctor's thesis, later helped her secure her L.S.U. appointment. Indeed, Mickey was generally recognized as Rosie McMillan's closest friend...
Despite the evidence against him, few at L.S.U. could bring themselves to believe that popular, respected George Mickey had killed his friend Rosie McMillan. Mickey himself continued to deny the charges, and from his Baton Rouge jailers come only reports of his weeping at night...
...damn thing to say about it, and you get the hell out of here." But a week later Jack admitted that Real Estate Operator Sidney J. Ungar, a longtime pal and Tammany Democrat, had picked up the $4,400 tab. It was not a gift. Jack insisted, merely a friendly loan without note or collateral. But it just so happened that while Ungar was paying to have Jack's bedroom painted orchid pink, he was also seeking city approval of a $30 million slum clearance project-and Hulan Jack, as borough president, held the right of veto. Ungar...
...Razor." At Tokyo's Imperial University, Nobusuke Kishi majored in law and graduated with top honors; a friend recalls that he also "drank a lot of sake and knew a great many young Tokyo actresses." In the political arguments that raged at school, young Kishi emerged as a conservative and a fiery nationalist. His hero was Kita Ikki, a right-wing radical who wanted Japan run by a military junta and called for the conquest of Manchuria and Siberia. Kishi was less happy about Ikki's attacks on private property and free enterprise; when some of Ikki...
...already showing the adaptability that makes opponents claim he strives to be all things to all men. Though a right-wing nationalist, he was also a friend of many left-wingers who later became the leaders of Japan's Socialist Party, and the friendships have endured. Graduating in the cherry blossom season of 1920, the newly married Kishi became a civil servant in the Ministry of Commerce and for the next 16 years was indistinguishable from thousands of other bureaucrats. Clutching his newspaper and a black umbrella, he commuted between his modest home in suburban Shinjuku and a governmental...