Word: handley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frederick-was a poor kid who got rich by seeing new possibilities in air transport. The son of a merchant seaman who deserted the family when Laker was six, he has been hooked on flying machines ever since as a kid he saw both the Hindenburg airship and a Handley Page biplane skimming the sky over Canterbury Cathedral. He quit school at 16 and began his aviation career by sweeping floors and making tea at a flying-boat factory. He eventually went on to become both an R.A.F. pilot and a licensed engineer during World War II. His big break...
...remind other governments forcefully that under Section 481 of the Foreign Assistance Act the Administration must cut off aid to countries that do not cooperate in the war on drugs. Out in the field, U.S. ambassadors have been charged with driving the point home. In Turkey, Ambassador William Handley told friends: "In this embassy, careers depend on getting opium banned." In drug matters, the U.S. has been receiving close cooperation from Yugoslavia and even Bulgaria, but State Department officials gripe that "it's damned hard to get an Italian or a Belgian even to think about pollution, let alone drugs...
...Americans who remain know that the student radicals consider them fair game, and they shudder at incidents such as the one that occurred last week at the residence of U.S. Ambassador William Handley. Even though the usual half a dozen guards were patrolling the area, Handley gulped when he saw his wife answer the doorbell and accept a plain paper bag. It turned out to be filled with avocados sent over by an embassy staffer...
...heard ??om the elderly in Cambridge. Sixty-??ree per cent of the elderly persons ??? Cambridge (those over 65) pay ???ore than half their income for rent. ???ast Wednesday's public hearing on rent increases was the first time that anyone representing the elderly spoke out on rent control. Catherine Handley of the Committee for the elderly approached the microphone after most everyone else had spoken. A young tenant jumped up to adjust the microphone for the short grey-haired lady in a prim blue pillbox hat. She didn't really say anything different from any of the other tenants...
...James L. Handley, chief of the Boston F. B. I. office, had "no comment whatsoever to make...