Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troops in full battle dress lugged their gear aboard a 37-ship invasion fleet that assembled in the Mediterranean port of Iskenderon, only 40 miles from Cyprus. Greece's alarmed government and military leaders gathered at King Constantine's Tatoi Palace near Athens to draft a final appeal to Turkey...
Though Bruce cannot be tried again on the murder charge, Criswell said he would appeal the ruling in order to challenge the judge's interpretation of the juvenile's rights. "It's the worst miscarriage of justice I've ever seen," said the angry prosecutor. "The boy hadn't even been arrested. And his father was there. This is ridiculous. It means we have open season on mothers up here." If Judge Lansden's barring of the confession is overruled, it will hardly make any difference to Bruce, who has been committed to a state mental hospital by his father...
...gratifying for Rochester's Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 72, to learn that somebody out there was paying attention to his appeal last month for funds to aid "the poor of the world." Just three weeks later, a winning ticket in New York State's monthly lottery was pulled from the barrel plainly marked "Bishop Sheen World Poor, Rochester, N.Y." One of 1,445 winners, the ticket will be worth between $150 and $100,000, depending on future drawings...
...Tony Rome, Frank Sinatra appears as a private eye for the first time. That fact may be of some interest to members of his immediate family, and the film may appeal to boosters of Miami Beach, which has seldom sparkled so prettily as it does here in Panavision-DeLuxe. Others are likely to find the movie nothing more than a blatantly inept, uncredited remake of Humphrey Bogart's 1946 The Big Sleep...
...What we need," Epps said, "is a forth-right and candid plea that the nation view the Peace Corps as an important and constructive part of its foreign policy." Vaughn should appeal to the Selective Service for special consideration for all Volunteers, both those overseas and those in training programs, Epps continued, charging that such an appeal "has never been vigorously put forward...