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Word: coms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been stoned; on occasion, friends have felt it necessary to stand all-night guard, shotguns at the ready. Wirges has been shot at, beaten, and threatened so persistently by anonymous telephone callers that he once sent his wife and four children to live for a while in the com parative safety of Little Rock, 35 miles to the southeast. But the campaign of terror, far from scaring the Democrat's spunky editor and proprietor, has only strengthened his resolve. Said Gene Wirges last week, blooded but unbowed: "I think they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Varieties of Violence | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

...than policy changes. The White House has been negotiating for him to address next year's convention of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce-an event he conspicuously boycotted last spring. More recently, Kennedy has summoned leaders of the C. of C., the National Association of Manufacturers and the Com mittee for Economic Development to ask: "What makes you think we are anti-business?" To that, U.S. business leaders last week offered many answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: The Wary Allies | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

...gross sales last year, with an $86,000 profit) K. C. Card Co. Karnov introduced himself as "a manufacturer of perfect dice"; but he admitted that he devoted 21 pages of his catalogue to what he blandly called "trick dice or gaffed dice." Growled Arkansas Democrat McClellan: "The more com mon expression is crooked dice, isn't it?" Muttered Karnov: "I guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Beware the Red-Eye | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

...months after the death of Com poser Maurice Ravel in 1937, his brother Edouard saw Disney's feature-length cartoon Snow White and decided that "this is the way L'Enfant et les Sortileges should be presented. Ravel's second and last opera had for its locale the mind of a child. In its cast are teapots as big as a man, cats who talk of love, squirrels who ruminate on redemption. It calls for 18 principals and a chorus of tree frogs, and one of its climactic solo passages by a Chinese cup (mezzo-soprano) consists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Classical Records: Aug. 11, 1961 | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

VARSITY GOLF is scheduled encounter Yale at The Com Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calendar | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

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