Word: baton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back in Baton Rouge from a nightclubbing 17-day vacation in Texas, Mexico and Arkansas, Louisiana's Governor Earl Long abruptly called his state legislature together in special session to consider a slate of 21 bills he wanted passed. The "urgent" agenda ran from vengeful bills against Long's political enemies, through pork-barrelling campaign provender, to a whimsical item that would have barred airlines from grounding stewardesses when they got married. The legislature at Baton Rouge last week just as abruptly answered the Governor's call: it adjourned 20 minutes after it had convened-the shortest...
...first murderous hail of bullets, Ovnand and Major Buis fell and died within minutes. Captain Howard Boston of Blairsburg, Iowa was seriously wounded, and two Vietnamese guards were killed. Trapped in a crossfire, all six might have died had not Major Jack Hellet of Baton Rouge leaped across the room to turn out the lights-and had not one of the terrorists who tried to throw a homemade bomb into the room miscalculated and blown himself up instead. Within minutes Vietnamese troops arrived, but the rest of the assassins had already fled...
...been an eventful five weeks since Ole Earl made his profane departure from Baton Rouge to be committed to a sanitarium in Galveston for treatment of schizophrenia (TIME. June 15). It had been an eventful eight days since Long forced his release from an insane asylum, made a travesty of Louisiana's mental-health laws, and reinstated himself as Governor in a motel room near the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. Milestones in the hectic trail between the Pine Manor Motel and the Governor's mansion: ¶ With his bony feet sticking out of the sheet that covered...
...Rankin. whom he had met in the Galveston hospital. The boy. said the Governor, had beaten him at poker with a "Mexican straight" (a hand consisting of deuce. 4. 6. 8 and 10). The boy's surprised parents demurred at the adoption plans, but let David go to Baton Rouge to welcome Ole Earl home...
...carpet of the hallway outside his Hotel Roosevelt suite. Then he grumpily submitted to an electrocardiogram (diagnosis: "He's in bad shape''), ordered some natty new clothes, received redheaded Blaze Starr, his favorite Bourbon Street stripteaser. at 2:30 a.m., later dashed off to Baton Rouge...