Word: backers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kill an individual. Seeing no other choice, the prosecution finally allowed Weissman to plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter on the theory that he would still get a rap of up to 15 years. But the D.A. guessed wrong. Accepting Weissman's plea, State Supreme Court Justice Frederick Backer mulled over a psychiatric report and gave Mike Schaffer's killer 3½ to seven years...
...hand belonged to Crimson line-backer Joe Donnelly, and he barely god it in front of a fourth-down Dartmouth punt with eight seconds left and the ball on the Indians...
Illinois' G.O.P. Gubernatorial Candidate Charles Percy, a lukewarm Barry backer, found a Barry groundswell too. Said he: "I feel it among independent, small home owners, in ethnic groups of all kinds, and among rural people. They say Goldwater is a man of courage, of integrity, of character-those are the words they're using at the popular level. They say he says what he means and talks straight. They say he's not a politician...
...consisting of Singapore, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei, was formed last September, the new nation gave a slight numerical edge to the Malays-42% of the 10 million population as opposed to 38% Chinese. The leader of Singapore's Chinese community, Lee Kuan Yew, was a firm backer of the multiracial federation. As Prime Minister (in effect, mayor) of Singapore, "Harry" Lee, though nominally a socialist, had kept Singapore wide open to free enterprise, and fought the Communists hard. At the same time, he did much to help the city's Malay minority. He became so popular...
...Platform Committee was chaired by Wisconsin's Representative Melvin Laird, himself an unannounced Goldwater backer. It struck out against costly, deficit-creating federal paternalism in a way that went well beyond the 1960 Republican platform. It approved a platform of conservatism in the word's dictionary sense, promising tightfisted fiscal policy, deploring pervasive federal influence, and urging local action to deal with local problems. Foreign-policy planks have a distinctive hard-line look about them, promising staunch stands against Communist threats, expressing general skepticism of the idea that the Soviet Union has relaxed...