Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jerome Eller, 42, McCarthy's longtime administrative assistant, is the candidate's closest adviser, although to outsiders he seems mainly busied with holding ths Senator's coat and seeing that he gets from one meeting to another. Curtis Gans, 30, a former United Press International reporter, is the chief tactician at the grass-roots level and the most important of the Mc-Carthyites in Wisconsin today. Seymour Hersh, 30, still another former newsman (he covered the Pentagon for the Associated Press), is press secretary, speechwriter-and an unexcelled master of profanity. A score of others do everything...
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...Your statement that Mrs. John F. Kennedy accepted $30,000 worth of rare leopard skins from the government of Somali and had them made into a coat [Feb. 2] has been called to our attention. Mrs. Kennedy did in fact pay a private furrier for her coat long before the visit of the Somalian Prime Minister to this country, and she at no time received any gift of leopard skins from the government of Somali...
...coverage of the 1925 Scopes "monkey" trial, H. L. Mencken mercilessly shredded the arguments of Fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan, who served as a special prosecutor against the teacher of Darwin's theory. Wrote Mencken: "The mountebank Bryan, parading the streets in his seersucker coat, is pointed out to sucklings as the greatest man since Abraham." Was such reporting an attempt to influence the outcome of the trial...
...face at a guard." One chilling passage portrays Eichmann himself, standing over a killing pit near Minsk and watching a pleading Jewish mother hold up her baby just before the bullets strike. "I was so close that later I found bits of brains splattered on my long leather coat," Eichmann said afterward. "My driver helped me remove them. Then we returned to Berlin...