Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kontum province in the monsoon-drenched central highlands, where a major Red offensive may be shaping up, the Communists took over the district capital of Tou Morong; heeding the advice of U.S. officers, who feared that rescue troops might fall into an ambush, the South Vietnamese government temporarily abandoned any attempt to recapture the town...
When it came to a number of other embarrassing aspects, though, the majority got out its brushes. Veteran Democratic Fund Raiser Matthew H. McCloskey, for example, had been accused of deliberately overpaying Maryland Insurance Man Don B. Reynolds $35,000 for writing a performance bond on the $20 million District of Columbia Stadium that McCloskey's firm was building. McCloskey claimed that it was only a bookkeeping goof, but Reynolds testified that $25,000 of the money was illegally channeled into the Democrats' 1960 presidential campaign fund through Baker. Generously, the committee found McCloskey's testimony "candid...
While Hansen carries on his innovations, the system labors under the serious handicaps of a limited budget imposed by a parsimonious Congress and dutiful district commissioners. Many of the buildings are rundown and ratinfested; one-third of the teachers are "temporaries." Critics also find considerable fault with Hansen's rule. The Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy, an aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King, protests that the four-track system "hardens class lines" and unfairly labels pupils on the basis of tests that "do not measure intelligence but the child's proficiency with middle-class symbols...
...Internal Revenue Service disallowed the deduction, and Shurbet decided to fight. After 1,700 pages of testimony, he won the first round in a Texas district court. The Government took the case to New Orleans' Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, claiming that Shurbet had failed to show that depletion of his water meant depreciation of his land. Besides, the "natural deposits" section of the Internal Revenue Code referred to "minerals" like oil, gas, ores. Nowhere did it mention water...
Elbert P. Turtle, LL.D., Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth District. The mind and heart of this dauntless judge enhance the great tradition of the federal judiciary...