Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unable to get very far by attacking Coleman's solid record as Governor, Johnson and Sullivan chose to tar him with the Kennedy brush, a lethal weapon in Mississippi these days. Coleman, they cried, had let John Kennedy sleep in Theodore Bilbo's old fourposter in the mansion back in 1957. Worse than that, he had gone on statewide TV in the fall of 1960 to support Kennedy for President. Said Johnson from every stump: "Coleman can't get the Kennedy albatross from around his neck.' Johnson insisted with pride and fervor that he had "stood...
...Technicality. Surprisingly, the defense chose to rest its case without calling any witnesses to attempt to connect Butts with known gamblers, to try to show that he might have been tipping Georgia's hand in order to ensure some bets. There was, said Judge Lewis Morgan, no question that the article was libelous. It would be up to Butts and his lawyer to convince the jury that the Post had not proved the story to be true...
...long owned a wooded hilltop a mile from Saint-Paul-de-Vence, on the Cóte d'Azur, a perfect site for a museum. He consulted assorted architects, who suggested amusing and cavalier plans for a subterranean museum or one soaring on stilts, but he eventually chose Sert. For consultants he enlisted artists whose works he sells: Braque, Chagall, Miró and Giacometti...
Still, the number of child victims with brain damage is so great that last week the Illinois Council for Mentally Retarded Children was agitating to have a state of emergency declared in Chicago. Health Commissioner Samuel Andelman chose what seemed to him more practical measures. He arranged to have 30 building inspectors take special evening courses in paint and plaster peeling problems. With every poisoning case reported, the inspectors can go to the home and check the paint and plaster. If they are laced with lead, the board of health can close the house...
Last week the subject was very much in the limelight as Y.P.F. signed a new contract with Oklahoma's Kerr McGee Oil to drill an additional 350 wells. Two days later, Argentina's electoral college chose a new President, Arturo Illia, who has vowed to annul all the oil contracts...