Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Johnson immediately gave the Mills bill his blessing, called it "a tremendous step forward for our senior citizens." Republicans planned a last-ditch fight to amend the measure by extending its voluntary provisions to hospitalization and establishing an income ceiling on participants. But they had little hope, and Wilbur Mills' bill seemed virtually certain to be the final blueprint for the medicare law, opening the way to a vast new Government role in health...
...radio always tuned to headquarters, and enough notches in its tailpipe to frighten the Mafia. Last week it roared out to overhaul a crook in a Jaguar fleeing Rome with $160,000 worth of paintings. Last month it ran Luciano D'Antoni, "king of the jailbreak," into a ditch and back to jail. Ace Police Driver Armando Spatafora has a chestful of medals for his daring sprints in the name of law, order and Ferrari...
Plans call for the building of a four-obstacle ring made up of a high metal cyclone fence, a 6-ft.-deep ditch, a highway for the exclusive use of Red patrols, and a sanitary strip some 500 yds. wide sprinkled with police watchtowers. Where buildings and trees now stand, pink hollyhocks will grow-not so much to beautify the austere scene as to provide the Communist sharpshooters with a clear line of fire...
...German army caps, they join a German troop convoy and narrowly escape disaster when a French P.W. in the convoy recognizes one of the fugitives (France's singing idol, Charles Aznavour) as a countryman. Later, in one fine funny scene, the Frenchmen push the car out of a ditch with their captive at the wheel and gape helplessly as he drives off with all their weapons. The captive becomes the captor, but not for long...
...advancing to the Beanpot finals, B.C. notched its second last-ditch victory over Harvard. A month ago the Eagles scored twice in the last four minutes at Watson Rink...