Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eleven weeks the trial dragged on, with Wolff, now 64 and ailing, stubbornly denying everything. Last week, impassive, he sat in the prisoner's box of Munich's Palace of Justice while Chief Judge Emil Mannhart took three hours to read the verdict, which found him guilty. The sentence: 15 years. "He was continuously engaged and was deeply entangled in guilt," said Judge Mannhart. "Himmler found in him his bureaucrat of death...
Warners probably turned Julie down because she was only a Broadway star and not a sure draw at the movie box office. Disney, who considers his own name insurance enough, snapped her up for Mary Poppins; then Producer Marty Ransohoff, knowing that he could only profit by following Disney, cast Julie opposite James Garner in The Americanization of Emily, which opens in a fortnight or so. Twentieth Century-Fox was emboldened enough to leap into the act, too, putting Julie to work on the film version of The Sound of Music. Suddenly, at 29, she has become a thoroughgoing movie...
...meet these goals, the Committee proposed that the tripartite division of knowledge into Natural Sciences, Social Science, and Humanities be replaced with just two categories, Sciences and Humanities (see box at left). In addition, the Committee formulated the following rules for the new Gen Ed program...
...storeroom a cheap, Italian-made Mannlicher-Carcano 6.5-mm. (about .26-cal.) rifle, serial number C2766. The FBI learned that the same rifle, already mounted with a Japanese-made, four-power telescopic sight, had been mailed in March 1963 from a Chicago firm to "A. Hidell, P.O. Box 2915" in Dallas. Handwriting experts told the Commission that the coupon ordering the weapon, the signature on a money order to pay for it and the address on the envelope all were written by Oswald's hand. Oswald's wallet contained fake identification cards for "Alek James Hidell"; one such card carried...
...neighborhood. Oswald paused in the doorway of a shoe store managed by one Johnny Calvin Brewer. Then, while Brewer watched, Oswald, disheveled and panting, ducked into the lobby of the Texas Theater. Cashier Julia Postal saw him, but when she heard the police sirens she stepped out of the box office. Brewer asked her if the man who had just entered the theater had bothered to pay for a ticket. "No, by golly, he didn't," said Mrs. Postal. She called the police. They came quickly, entered the theater, turned on the lights, and Brewer identified Oswald in a seat...