Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vacancy caused by his exclusion. There was no doubt that Powell would win at the polls, but his victory could well be meaningless, since the House has already voted, 307 to 116, to bar him from the 90th Congress. There remains, however, the possibility that the House will relent. Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the select committee that recommended that Powell be seated but penalized, predicts that the House will now admit the prodigal...
Fairest of Them All. For Weight Watchers, the rewards are touchingly simple. Says Walter Jenson, 23, a Queens office clerk who went from 425 Ibs. to 191 lbs. and from size 60 pants to size 36 in one year: "I can get on my knees and pray better." Brooklyn Bookkeeper Alex Galietti, 29, finds that after losing 106 lbs., "I'm doing things I could never do as a teen-ager-skating and bike riding...
MARINELAND CARNIVAL (CBS, 7-8 p.m.). In the fifth edition of Marineland Carnival, Art Carney, as a vacationer from Brooklyn, and Jim Backus, as a frustrated TV director, "discover" Singer Nancy Ames as they watch the high-leaping dolphin and other denizens of the Florida aquarium...
This weekend the club heads for New York to play St. Peter's, Columbia, and the N.Y. Athletic Club, and will face Brooklyn Poly, Fordham, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Army, before closing the season at Yale on the 13th...
...Eastern final against U.N.C. The over-rated Eagles ran into an effective freeze by Connecticut and were lucky to get past the first round. In the semi-finals they were outclassed by St. John's but squeaked by, hitting 23 of 25 second half freebies. (The Redmen from Brooklyn were so stunned by their defeat that they collapsed in the consolation game with Princeton, losing 78-58.) North Carolina had little trouble eliminating the Eagles Saturday night in a rather routine shoot...