Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they had got through the story of just the first 25 years of his life. MacNeil went on with seven more hours of interviewing, and at one point, to check the story that Dirksen keeps his pants pockets full of enough odds and ends to cover a variety-store counter, he asked the Senator to empty the contents on the spot. Dirksen complied: a pocket knife, a St. Christopher medal, an empty leather pillbox, a cold sniffer, an odd-shaped piece of rough jade, a magnifying reading glass, a 1955 medal of the Kewanee. Ill., Masonic Lodge, a silver dollar...
Traveler: It's marvelous how you do it, Doctor. I've been traveling the same territory myself, but nobody ever really opens up except filling station attendants and waitresses. I tried to talk to a truck driver at a lunch counter in Salt Lick, Ky., about the Common Market. He looked as if he was about to punch me in the nose, so I dropped the subject. In Palmyra, Ind., I asked a farmer how he felt about Kennedy. "My politics is my business," he said. In Paoli, Ind., I asked a housewife if she was alarmed about...
...week's end, still trying to decide how much of this was for the birds and how-much was not. New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur G. Klein had yet to issue a ruling in the case. But with the affidavits and counter affidavits piling up, it seemed likely that the Bon Ami chick would be wriggling uncomfortably in the public eye for some time to come...
...tragic extent of the thalidomide disaster was officially confirmed last week in West Germany, where the malformation-causing drug was first synthesized eight years ago. Since 1957, when the sleeping-pill-tranquilizer was approved for over-the-counter sale, announced the Public Health Ministry, it has caused 10,000 cases of birth malformations in West Germany alone. In the U.S., only a handful of thalidomide-connected malformations have been reported, but there are more than 50 deformed babies in Canada, close to 1,000 in Britain, untold scores more across Western Europe, in Japan and South America, where the drug...
...finance his invasion of Ethiopia, where the thaler was legal currency, Mussolini pressured Austria into allowing him to mint the coin. To counter Mussolini, the British began minting thalers without permission. When World War II broke out, both sides furiously coined thalers to bribe African and Asian tribesmen...