Word: trailingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Open Contract. New York police were certain that they were on the trail of Joey Gallo's killer. As they now reconstruct the assassination, an open contract for Gallo's death had been offered by the Carlo Gambino family at the urging of the Colombos-meaning any Mafia member could execute it. Gambino, the East's strongest Mafia boss, supplied both gangs with guns and encouraged the warfare...
George Wallace and his pretty wife, Cornelia, make for some lively domestic dialogue on the campaign trail. "Get on over there and get me a pecan pie," said George at a roadside restaurant, and she did. But later, Cornelia evened it up when a reporter asked her if she makes political speeches. "No," she replied, "and if I ever do, I'll make them for myself-not anybody else." At another stop, Cornelia was telling how George's suits are given to him by a clothing company. Glowering, George denied wearing free suits. Cornelia insisted that...
...reduce the number of our forces, it is particularly important for us to continue our air strikes on the infiltration routes. If we see any substantial step-up in infiltration in the passes, for example, which lead from North Vietnam into Laos and, of course, the Laotian trail which comes down through Cambodia into South Vietnam--if we see that, we will have to not only continue our air strikes; we will have to step them...
Muskie has not campaigned in Ohio after withdrawing from the unfriendly primary trail last week. But the Muskie slate is comprised of many well-known Ohio politicians, led by Governor John J. Gilligan...
...then it will not be self-sufficient. Partly because Washington does not want Saigon to have an air force advanced enough to tempt it into unwise adventures, VNAF will not be given the long-range planes that would enable it to keep pressure up on the Ho Chi Minh Trail or hold Hanoi's supersonic MIGs...