Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lois R. BREDHOLT, AGE 14 Brooklyn...
...Brooklyn...
...result, in late September and early October the Post Office suffered some snarls and snafus - particularly in Chicago, the nation's busiest relay point. Even after that crisis abated, one large direct-mail company reported a ten-day delay in sending third-class mail from Manhattan to Brooklyn...
...block Powell from being seated by invoking a House rule giving any member the right to challenge the swearing in of another (TIME, Dec. 9). Moreover, for all of Congress' traditional reluctance to criticize its members, Congressmen are under growing pressure from constituents to do something about Powell. Brooklyn Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, for one, considers Powell "as obnoxious as a crocodile," but thinks that to expel him - which the House could do by a two-thirds majority - would be "foolish." Powell, whose constituents elected him to a twelfth term in November with 74% of the vote, would, says...
...book in question is U.S. Novelist Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn, a stomach-turning homosexual excursion, which the British government refused to act against on the theory that the book probably had literary merit. Balderdash, retorted Sir Cyril Black, a Conservative M.P., friend of Evangelist Billy Graham and watchdog of British public morals...