Word: bille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debunking of Western badmen in your March 30 issue included too many errors to be ignored. If Wild Bill Hickok was a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West troupe in the year 1890, he was there in spirit only. Wild Bill was killed on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 1876 in the Number Ten Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Nonentity Jack McCall. The carets Bill was holding fell to the floor face up-aces and eights, known ever after as the "dead man's hand...
...Wild Bill toured with Buffalo Bill's troupe in the flesh...
...86th Congress, unfolding the morning newspaper was nothing but pleasure for Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson. Texan Johnson's weighty advice to the Administration on budget and defense policies, and his considerable success in steering the Senate to spectacular compromise on the filibuster and the housing bill, were the talk of Washington. But by last week Lyndon Johnson had become accustomed to finding more headaches in headlines than he had known in years...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. unemployment rally in Washington's armory (see The Economy), drew roars by roasting the Administration for rejecting "prudent proposals to expand the economy of our country." Back he went to the Senate to show what a man of action could do. He introduced a bill setting up an eleven-member, legislative-executive unemployment fact-finding commission. Scarcely three hours after the bill was hoppered. 68 Senators had stepped forward to cosponsor. A remarkably brief 48 hours later, the resolution sailed through by voice vote, and liberals, squawkers and other doubters were put on notice the Johnson...
Captain Ned Weld, fresh from a fine victory over M.I.T.'s Raul Karman, will again be at first singles, with Bob Bowditch, Tim Galwey, Fred Vinton, Jorge Lemann, and Bill Wood completing the singles alignment. Jim Cameron, Laurie Pratt, Pete Smith, and Scott Custer will play additional matches not included in the official scoring...