Word: bells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jackson promised to seek a meeting soon with Attorney General Griffin Bell to demand that the Justice Department take a "new look at evidence in the case" and to press for a new trial. Whether Ray receives it may depend on the findings of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. This week, the panel is scheduled to hear testimony from Ray and a number of black leaders...
Even impersonal names stir improbable emotions. Phone clients have continued to howl as Ma Bell has systematically abolished exchange names (Butterfield, Murray Hill) in favor of numbers. When a disease got named for their organization, some American Legionnaires protested as though fearing voodoo-like contamination. Real estate developers act as if they expect fanciful street names to impart class to entire neighborhoods. But should it be assumed that only classical music is played on Symphony Circle in Vienna...
...often seemed straight from a Monty Python satiric sketch, that Les ley Brown is a pretty woman of 5 ft. 5 in., who wears her brownish hair in a pageboy cut. In her turquoise-blue hospital room, she often lounges in an easy chair, wearing a brown-and-white bell-sleeved housecoat. She spends much of her time making telephone calls, doing puzzles, knitting, nibbling on mints and eating ordinary hospital food (a typical lunch: steak and kidney pie with mashed potatoes, followed by fruit tart). Occasionally, added the Evening Chronicle, she has become weepy and depressed, and was briefly...
...Keble Prosser, first came out from England to run St. Augustine's. The dirt road twists and turns its way up a hillside, into which are built low, one-story brick classroom buildings and dormitories, shaded by long verandas and heavy foliage. St. Augustine's 14th century bell continues to ring out across the valley. As the African sun climbs through the mist to strike the treetops, the hill rings too with the sound of children's voices...
...self-confident businessmen from rural backgrounds, who had initially sought success by going to military academies and who styled themselves economic moderates and social liberals, should hit it off. Miller faced a tough grilling by the Senate Banking Committee about bribes paid by Textron to spur sales of its Bell helicopters in Iran. His cool, precise answers convinced all the Senators except Chairman William Proxmire that he had had no idea that the Shah's brother-in-law was the secret owner of a company to which Textron paid commissions. Some documents that subsequently came to light indicate that lower...