Word: corn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same fate only because he recently resigned in the wake of charges that he and Johnson took bribes in exchange for favorable decisions. Meanwhile, a state grand jury has indicted the two justices, both of them Oklahoma Indians. The alleged bribery ringleader is former Chief Justice Nelson S. Corn, 80, himself a convicted federal tax evader, as is Justice Welch...
...defunct investment company that allegedly milked millions from trusting shareholders. Whatever the facts, it was only last year that evidence began mounting against the three elderly jurists. For federal tax evasion, Welch received a three-year rap but stayed on the bench pending his appeal. For the same charge, Corn pleaded nolo contendere (no contest) and served six months of an 18-month sentence...
After being released last winter, Corn signed an 84-page statement admitting that in the 1957 tax case he had sold his vote for $150,000, from which he said he paid $7,500 apiece to Justices Welch and Johnson. In 1959, Corn added, he paid his brethren another $2,500 apiece in an oil-lease case...
...spends 80 minutes plotting the day's 36 separate topics for her 17 pupils, who come from seven nearby farm families. She teaches them on six grade levels, from first to eighth (she has no sixth and seventh graders). The 68-year-old school is surrounded by corn and barley fields; 48 silos filled with Government-owned surplus corn loom near...
...Cream & Corn. Presiding over all this fun and fanfare is Richard Fargo Brown, at 48 one of the younger major U.S. museum directors, and a man who, in a young city that thrives on cultural imbroglios, thrives on his wit and wisdom. A jocular scholar who is apt to bump into trustees with a chocolate ice cream cone in his hand, Brown is an artist's son and a Bucknell University scholarship student (he was a four-letter man in high school) who got an M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard, then perfected his taste with five years...