Word: alibied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate went beyond mere criticism; it took a number of steps that may actually roll back Negro gains. For one thing, it attached a rider to a HEW appropriations bill giving Southern hospitals the right-or alibi-to segregate patients if they judge that integrated rooms might prove "injurious" to their health. For another, it approved a $ 1,000,000 cut in HEW's civil rights enforcement budget. In addition, the Senate-approved Demonstration Cities bill was running into resistance from Congressmen who said they were getting complaints from constituents that "we don't need a Demonstration Cities...
...felon in the very first scene. The night is dark; Frobe approaches a woman seated alone on a bus at a rest stop somewhere between Nice and Grasse, drags her into a small park and stabs her. The victim is his wife, and Frobe has such an airtight alibi that the murder case would be swiftly closed except for a rich young stranger (Maurice Ronet), who is interested in uxoricide for its instructional value. Caught between a neurotic wife who won't give him a pleasant word or a divorce and a delectable mistress (Marina Vlady) who will give...
...Norfolk's International Azalea Festival set a date with Washington's Luci Baines Johnson, and not only got a gracious four-day queen but an unexpected visit from L.B.J. in the bargain. Daddy may be busy these days, but he could hardly use Viet Nam as an alibi when it came to crowning Her Majesty Luci Baines Azalea...
...Congress tried to give the feds a boost by passing a law that creates a presumption of guilt for anyone caught near a moonshiner's place of business. Unless he has a good alibi, "such presence of the defendant shall be deemed sufficient evidence to authorize his conviction." Last week that law came before the Supreme Court in the case of Jackie Gainey, a Georgia moonshiner who had been nabbed near a still. Upholding the law 8 to 1, the court, in a majority opinion by Justice Potter Stewart noted that moonshiners are "notorious for the deftness with which...
Admittedly, the speeches and commentary from Atlantic City often sounded like a rererun of something called What Next from Planet Lyndon? But Fred Friendly, president of CBS News, had a quiet alibi. "Conventions," he said, "were designed for the William Jennings Bryan day. Some day, somebody is going to have to sit down and streamline them...