Word: alibiing
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...unpredictability" of the war in Viet Nam. The Senate approved it, even though it was simply a Dirksen exercise in oneupmanship. If the House agrees, the President, who has always had the power to withhold congressionally appropriated funds, will in consequence have more trouble repeating his favorite alibi that larger expenses are the fault of Congress...
Died. Joseph F. McGinnis, 61, Boston gangster and mastermind of the 1950 Brinks robbery-biggest haul ($2,775,395, of which only $56,586 has been recovered) in U.S. history-who had an alibi on the night of the crime, but was betrayed by a member of his ten-man gang, convicted, and given nine concurrent life sentences; of arteriosclerosis; at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, at Walpole...
...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...