Word: canceler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More seriously, Morrison has made it clear that he does not want Jack Kennedy's help in Nebraska. When Vice President Lyndon Johnson spoke for a Democratic congressional candidate in Omaha, Morrison pointedly stayed some 400 miles away in Scottsbluff. Morrison also persuaded Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman to cancel a scheduled talk at the National Corn Picking Contest in Grand Island; Freeman offered to send a substitute, but the Alpine Yodelers of Monroe, Wis. were scheduled instead...
...aside his driver and hit the books. But the academic fairway proved full of traps. The school's dean ruled that because the U.S. Open champ was committed to three weeks of golfing exhibitions during the fall term, he must cancel them or withdraw; his instructors felt that he "could not miss that much class time." The edict riled Nicklaus. an insurance major with average grades. "I don't like to be told I can't go to school," he said. "I've missed classes to play golf every quarter I've been at Ohio...
...airline refused to fly him to the U.S.. the Home Office ordered him deported. Soblen appealed that order through the courts, got nowhere. Finally he sent a 20-page personal plea to Home Secretary Henry Brooke. After "careful consideration," Brooke stuck to his guns and refused to cancel the order. But each legal defeat brought a new wave of British sympathy for Soblen, described last week by the Daily Mirror's Cassandra as "this wretched man." Cheered the Daily Mail: "The Soblen story is that of one sick man against the world-and so far he has beaten...
...Yates storm over a $107 million contract to supply private power in the Tennessee Valley Authority area; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington, D.C. After advocates of public power forced a Senate investigation, charging that it was all a scheme to cripple TVA, President Eisenhower was eventually forced to cancel the deal; Dixon vainly sued the Government for $1,867,454 that he claimed his company lost in the squabble...
...Forced to cancel his assault on John Cobb's world land-speed record (394.196 m.p.h.) when officials at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats ruled the surface too dangerously rough for his 3,200-h.p. super-hot-rod Challenger I, California's Mickey Thompson turned up instead in a 1962 Pontiac, smashed 50 U.S. stock-car records-despite a blundering pit crew that set the engine afire by spilling oil on it and then proceeded to spray Thompson in the face with gasoline. Over one kilometer from a flying start, the Pontiac was clocked at 153.64 m.p.h...