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...Edwin Taylor of Iowa, a one-time editor of several newspapers. A former delegate to both Republican and Democratic conventions, he became disillusioned with the major parties and was chosen to head the ticket of the newly established National Liberal Party, which revived many of the principles of the defunct Whigs...
Last week, after a complex trial in Baltimore that lasted 28 days, Congressman Dowdy, 59, stood convicted of bribery, conspiracy and perjury. The charges grew out of his dealings with Nathan Cohen, whose now-defunct construction firm had been accused of the kinds of violations that Dowdy's committee was ostensibly attacking. Dowdy, a parochial politician whose strength stems from his attention to voter complaints and requests,* thus became the 15th sitting Congressman convicted of crimes in this century. The most recent was the 1956 income-tax-evasion conviction of Massachusetts Democrat Thomas J. Lane...
Everything that Brinnin writes about is defunct. The big liners were killed, of course, by the jet plane, a device that condensed the leisured misery of a five-day crossing into seven hours of concentrated nullity or wretchedness. Oddly, however-the same is true of the process that makes frozen orange juice-something was lost in the squeezing. Blush and call it romance...
...Bison's soccer publicity pamphlet this year, coach Lincoln Phillips, former coach and goalie for the now defunct Washington Darts pro team, was so upset by the loss that he returned to his native Trinidad and personally handpicked 12 freshmen recruits...
...November Action Coalition, SDS's now-defunct rival on the left), and Afro argued that the "abstract technology" aspect of the Cambridge Project was just a blind for counter-insurgency research. An SDS booklet read as follows...