Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just before an impromptu demonstration at Fort Benning on the second of the three nights Calley spent in the stockade, the Rev. Michael Lord told a rally in the nearby Columbus Memorial Stadium: "There was a crucifixion 2,000 years ago of a man named Jesus Christ. I don't think we need another crucifixion of a man named Rusty Calley." The demonstration passed the stockade, and Calley said later: "The crowd out there really turned me on. I slept better last night...
Young Colombo was acquitted after the chief Government witness changed his testimony. The picketing continued into June, and the Italian-American Civil Rights League was formed. On June 29, a massive Italian-American Unity Day Rally brought thousands to Columbus Circle in Manhattan, including virtually every politician in the city. The next month, Attorney General John Mitchell announced that "Mafia" and "Cosa Nostra" were no longer to be used in Justice Department and FBI reports and releases; a similar edict from Governor Nelson Rockefeller affected New York State releases...
...president at the age of 29, hopes to expand his franchised locations from the present eleven to as many as 30 by year's end. Lease-A-Plane has stations spanning from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Van Nuys, Calif. Last week it opened stations in St. Louis and Columbus. From each franchise operator, the company gets a $10,000 fee and a 5% annual royalty on gross revenues. Lease-A-Plane supplies the aircraft, but each local operator must put up $50,000 to $75,000 within a year to buy an equity on a fleet of about eight...
...have checked the matter with our Columbus station personnel. They have denied that they have ever given or requested VIP treatment for Lieut. Galley...
...refusing further curtain calls. Next day the Hamburg papers carried jittery editorials, worrying about whether Sutherland & Co. would pack up and go. No problem. Soon she was down at the Hamburg docks, her fist clenched now around a champagne bottle, with which she smilingly christened a new container carrier, Columbus Australia...