Word: calls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chamber was deathly still as the clerk began the roll call. The first, and critical, vote was on the reservation proposed by Senator Wherry, which would insist that the U.S. had no obligation to furnish arms to its new partners. It was defeated, 74 to 21. Two other reservations were knocked down. Then, by a majority of 82 to 13, the Senate approved the North Atlantic Treaty...
Recently Citizen Mickey decided it was time people knew about the corruption in their police force. Two vice-squad officers, he declared righteously, had tried to shake him down for $20,000; furthermore, one of the guys had been protecting Brenda Allen's plush call-house (TIME, July 11) and Mickey knew where he could get wire recordings to prove it. Brenda went to jail largely on the say-so of another vice-squad sergeant and a handsome policewoman named Audre Davis. Then Policewoman Audre accused her friend the vice sergeant of being a burglar...
...nights in a row as a clay pigeon. [Attorney General] Howser must have had a hell of a tip." He was sure it was not a local bookie ("Every bookie in this town is a very close personal friend of mine," said Mickey firmly), nor imported Eastern gunmen. "I call New York, Chicago and Cleveland regular," said Mickey. "I'm a well-informed man. And I didn't get no rumble of anything going on ... If [Frank] Costello was moving in, we'd all be dead...
Last week, it looked as if Bill Richards, now 41, had stumbled into a gold mine. On Cape Cod, where he farms 300 once-scrubby, sand-swept acres by intensive irrigation, neighbors call him "the broccoli king." This summer, barring a hurricane, he will harvest close to $200,000 worth of broccoli and lettuce from a farm which, by Texas standards, is hardly more than a pea patch. He will probably gross as much again from the sale of irrigation pipes and pumps to farmers who want to adopt his system...
Indian Summer. In Menlo Park, Calif., Charles E. Brown, 82, had to call off his 62nd wedding-anniversary party when he came down with mumps...