Word: deal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ambassador of the United States is worth a great deal...
...court could find that an inquest is not designed to deal with the extraordinarily publicized Kennedy case and that any action must be left to a grand jury-an inquiry held in secret. District Attorney Dinis, however, would prefer to avoid a grand jury investigation, since he himself would be in charge and the press would be excluded...
...Eastern Kentucky's Breathitt County, politics comes as naturally as breathing. Ervine Turner, who died last year after a 40-year career as state senator, school superintendent and circuit judge, first became a power in the mountainous area when he brought Breathitt the benefits of the New Deal. His death did nothing to weaken his family's Snopesian hold on the county. His wife Marie served as county school superintendent for 38 years until her retirement last June, and still remains president of the Citizens Bank of Jackson, the county seat. Their son John is a state senator...
...diaries of the acerbic Harvard economist, to be published in the October issue of American Heritage, contain some other fascinating passages, notably an account of Jackie Kennedy's state visit to India ("The President had told me that the care and management of Mrs. Kennedy involved a good deal of attention, and he is quite right."). But the best parts involve his never-ending feud with his superiors in Foggy Bottom. Wrote Galbraith in 1961, as tensions were rising between India and Pakistan: "One of our carriers brought twelve supersonic jets to Karachi, where they were unloaded...
NATO's fear is understandable, but its arguments have been so extreme that Rosel Hyde, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, recently issued a fact sheet to deal with what he called "a totally unfounded and untrue campaign." Pay-TV, said the paper, "will supplement, not supplant free television." Pay-TV would be restricted to markets where at least four standard stations are already operating. Pay-TV operators would not be allowed to charge for a series like Laugh-In or Here's Lucy, or for sporting events now seen on free TV. They would deal only...