Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still prevented from visiting New York by contempt-of-court citations that could jail him, Powell said that he would not have to campaign anyway. Nevertheless, reinforced by the presence of CORE'S Floyd McKissick, he got in a few licks for the benefit of reporters and TV cameras. "Long before Mr. Meredith was having his diapers changed," he mocked, "I was walking the streets of Harlem on picket lines." Noting that Meredith describes himself as an "independent Democrat," Powell observed that "anybody who is a Democrat running on the Republican ticket has got to be a little tetched...
...organizer for the benefit observed philosophically: "The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away." On the debit side were Lynda Bird Johnson and Actor George Hamilton, who couldn't make it to Manhattan for the U.S. premiere of the Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton version of The Taming of the Shrew. Among the credits were Bobby Kennedy and his sister Pat Lawford, joining a glittering list of 500 who paid $100 each to help the Society for the Rehabilitation of the Facially Disfigured. But it was the Duke and Duchess of Windsor who drew shrieks from the people watchers outside...
...alive at all, after the three massive strokes that left her paralyzed and speechless two years ago. She feels so much better that this summer she will star in a movie version of Broadway's The Subject Was Roses. In Manhattan to deliver a speech for the benefit of the New York Association for Brain-Injured Children, Pat told a press conference that her husband. Writer Roald Dahl, wanted her to resume her career. "He's making me do it," she explained. "He thinks I'm playing too much bridge...
Life at the institute revolves around a balanced union of work, study and prayer. Members of the community are involved in trying to improve the Negro slum neighborhood. Backed by a $170,000 federal grant, the institute operates a nursery school for the benefit of both its members and neighborhood families. It has also created a club for neighborhood kids called the Jets and offers legal aid to area residents...
...westward trade drift is inevitable. At least 30% of East Germany's exports and imports are with Western nations-and of that, one-third is with West Germany. In the wee hours of the morning, even Walter Ulbricht must admit to himself that his country can only benefit by importing the vastly superior, much more varied products put out by the Germany on the other side of the Wall...