Word: april
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...trial (mentally shed is questionable yet). I was arrested (for possession) with 17½ grms. of heroin, tried in federal court, and sentenced to 40 years in prison. Vito Genovese, who possibly oversaw the distribution of 17½ Ibs. of heroin, who was only commercially interested, when tried in April received 15 years. (Harsher penalties only get the applause of the "big city boys" who distribute narcotics, because the stiffer the penalty the higher the price...
...numbing hold-down on spending for B-52 bombers, Strategic Air Command fuel, basic research. On orders from President Eisenhower, McElroy worked out and steered through Congress a reorganization plan that, on paper at least, took a long stride toward unified control of the Defense Department (TIME, April...
Fool's Gold. It was on the trail of the dreamers and dead men that two young Hawaiians, Benjamin Ferreira, 27. and Stanley Fernandez, 22, arrived in Arizona last April with 300 Ibs. of prospecting gear, food and, inevitably, a map. For $25 apiece, a guide packed them to within a ridge's climb of Weaver's Needle, helped them set up camp, and left. For days Ferreira and Fernandez searched for Lost Dutchman's gold. Once they pounced on a gleaming seam-but it turned out to be pyrite-fool's gold. Fernandez began...
...months afterward, Cannon seemed to accept the defeat. Then, late last April, the name of State Representative Bedford Black vanished from the news columns of the Kannapolis daily Independent (circ. 10,950). Cannon owns the Independent building and the ground it stands on, and his son-in-law owns a controlling interest in the paper...
After lagging behind Ford in April, Chevrolet moved up to first place in May, with sales estimated at 153,000 against 135,300 for Ford. Plymouth moved up to third place (42,500 cars), ahead of Pontiac (35,300), which still kept a commanding lead over the middle-price field. In the luxury field, Cadillac reported a five-month total of 65,413-the best January-May in the company's 57-year history. American Motors expected to turn out its 300,000th Rambler one day this week, far in excess of its total production in any previous model...