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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...John Mcgrath, Supervisor of the Money Department at the Harvard Trust Company, has received several counterfeit bills, all of poor quality. He has noted a common quirk in many of the bills he has received...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wave of Bogus Bills Hits Stores In Cambridge Area | 11/25/1970 | See Source »

...network accent, came on strong as the father figure many kids miss. So strong, in fact, that it emphasized the sweetness of Loretta Long, who plays his wife. She has been compared to a candy cordial, chocolate outside, syrup within. The rest of the cast is white: Bob McGrath, a singer with irrepressibly high spirits and voice; and Will Lee, an actor whose years on the McCarthy era blacklist made him perhaps more aware of deprivation. "I was delighted to take the role of Mr. Hooper, the gruff grocer with the warm heart," recalls Lee. "It's a big part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Who's Afraid of Big, Bad TV? | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

Like Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces before it, Goin' Down the Road is one of the new "road" films in which a stretch of asphalt provides the metaphoric core. Pete (Doug McGrath) and his pal Joey (Paul Bradley) are two wistful roustabouts from the Canadian Maritime Provinces. With 30 bucks and an abused Chevrolet labeled "My Nova Scotia Home," they pick up and head for Toronto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sound Sleeper | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

...While accepting 300 for confinement in state facilities, Rocky reminded Lindsay that the first priority was to restore order. Even with the transfers, only two guards control 250 prisoners on each floor. The most confused official of all seemed to be the city's commissioner of correction, George McGrath, who admitted the overcrowding-and simultaneously voiced disbelief. "If things were all that bad," he said, "I'd have heard about it before this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Black Hole of Manhattan | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

...from exile in Africa that he was resigning as Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party because of the group's policy of making alliances, with white radical groups. In New York, the proceedings against 21 Panthers allegedly involved in a bomb plot continued. On July 7, George F. McGrath, New York City Commissioner of the New York City Department of justice justified holding the New York defendants in isolation cells with special security measures by saying that the Panthers were "recognized militants, as part of a formal party which urges people to be antiestablishment. We view them as security...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: The Trial of Bobby Seale | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

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