Word: deckered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last year with $2,300,000 from the Ford Foundation. Last month Ford gave it another $2,000,000, which amounted to an openhanded vote of confidence in the project's staff and distinguished new director, the U.S. Army's recently retired Judge Advocate General Charles L. Decker (West Point '31, Georgetown...
...crack criminal defender as well as prosecutor, Director Decker, who was founder of the Army's Judge Advocate General School and of the nation's first independent military judiciary, will siphon much of his Ford Foundation money into model defender agencies in Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia and Washington-"grey area" cities with slum-bred legal problems. Matching funds will go to other cities and counties willing eventually to pay the full bill for embryo defender agencies. Since 90% of court-appointed lawyers are unskilled in criminal law, Project Defender will also support more law-school criminal courses...
Died. Sir Henry Spurrier, 66, recently retired chairman of England's vast Leyland Motor Corp. Ltd., who inherited control from his father in 1942 when Leyland was limited to double-decker buses and army tanks, turned it into the world's largest manufacturer of heavy-duty vehicles by absorbing competitors and peddling everything from panel trucks to earth movers to 130 countries, including Castro's Cuba, to which Leyland is delivering 450 buses in defiance of the U.S. trade embargo; after a long illness; in Preston, England...
...pencil, he had slipped past a police guard among surging newsmen. "He was explaining to members of the press from out of state who everybody was," said Rutledge. "Somebody would come out and say something to the press and a newsman would say, 'Who's that? Sheriff Decker?' and Ruby would say, 'No, that's Captain Will Fritz.' He'd spell out the names. He was making all the identifications, shouting them out." Once, testified Rutledge, an officer spotted Ruby in the crowd at headquarters and said, "Hey, Jack, what are you doing...
...gallery of representational painting called the French Quarter, opened yesterday at 1210 Massachusetts Avenue. The first exhibition is of works by British artist Eugene Decker...