Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...replace Belli and conduct the appeal, the family chose Houston's Percy Foreman, president of the National Association of Defense Lawyers, and one of the top criminal lawyers in Texas. Like Belli, Foreman charges high fees. A prosperous Texan charged with homicide once said that he could not decide whether to call in Foreman and spend the rest of his life in the poorhouse or take his chances on a moderate sentence and keep his estate. The Ruby family claims to be out of cash, but Foreman is optimistic: "There is some property they will try to sell." Foreman...
...Sephardim and the Ashkenazim-are each represented by a Chief Rabbi of their persuasion, and these two jointly head a council of five Sephardi and five Ashkenazi sages. Since 1959, the chair of the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi has been vacant; last week the 125-man Rabbinical Electoral College chose for the post Dr. Iser Judah Unterman, 77, white-bearded Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and onetime Chief Rabbi of Liverpool. They also re-elected the Sephardi incumbent, Dr. Yitzhak Nissim...
Finances for the corps would come from the federal government. Its members should be paid very good salaries, Galbraith emphasized, and their contracts should stipulate that they would go wherever the government chose to send them. The teaching corps would be coordinated with the community action programs of the current anti-poverty bill. Commenting on the size of the funds proposed for the "war on poverty." Galbraith said, "the important thing this year is to get started, and the direction is right." The amounts that have been allotted are small, he went on, and will have to be expanded...
REQUIEM MASS IN D MINOR (RCA Victor) was left unfinished when Mozart died at 35, and Conductor Erich Leinsdorf chose it as a symbolic tribute to the late President John F. Kennedy. This superb recording was made by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with a 180-voice choir and the extraordinary, majestic drawl of Richard Cardinal Gushing, in a solemn pontifical requiem Mass in Boston's Holy Cross Cathedral. Proceeds from the record sale will go to the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library fund...
...Lizzie, his mother, a Kansas City lady barber "with dyed, frizzled hair." Born out of wedlock, Dahlberg grew up sickly, sensitive and neglected; at the insistence of one of Lizzie's suitors, who could not stand him, he was packed off to a Jewish orphanage whose stunted inmates chose as a school song "We'll fight for the name of Harvard." At his best, Dahlberg describes his early life with wit, intensity and candor...