Word: councilor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perhaps luck for him that most of the cases have not gone to trial. So far, of the two cases tried, it is likely that both will end up as acquittals. State Representative Turo of Worcester was acquitted by the jury in his trial and Governor's Councilor Stasiun's conviction will probably be overturned by a higher court since the State's evidence is on the flimsy side. Furthermore, Brooke's opponent, state Senator James Hennigan, was never serious about winning--Hennigan, who is almost unknown outside Boston, concentrated on building up his organization for a serious effort...
Political Potatoes. The price-resistance movement swept through New Delhi. Housewives banded together to buy milk directly from producers. Brij Mohan, 38, a city councilor, started trucking in potatoes from the Punjab, sold them at artificially low prices. "These are political potatoes, which can appear only once a year," said a sour grocer watching Mohan with scales in hand dispensing potatoes on the sidewalk. But the campaign forced city merchants to lower their prices, and aroused public opinion as never before...
...navy commander in World War II, he served on destroyers and gunboats, took part in the raid on Dieppe, designed the camouflage scheme that was adopted by the British Admiralty for all ships on duty in the Atlantic. Today, a world-renowned naturalist, conservationist and ornithologist, he is a councilor of the London Zoo and keeper of the world's greatest collection of exotic ducks, geese and swans at his own Severn Wildfowl Trust...
...garbage there every day. Since typhoons carried away parts of the barrier that was supposed to contain the offal, it drifts out and forms a putrescent bilge that swills around the city. For a long time, not even her best friends would tell her. Then last week Senior City Councilor Arnaldo de Oliveira Sales took an olfactory tour of Hong Kong in a helicopter and pronounced that even from 300 feet up the place stank. The government promised that Gin Drinkers' Bay will be contained by a new wall next month and that the first of two big, modern...
...Harvard Lampoon will welcome its long-lost Ibis back to the top of its building in a ceremony at 2:30 p.m. today. Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci and entrepreneur Ralph Cahaly, among other notables, will speak during the brief program...