Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montana's Mike Mansfield, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, who had voted in Congress for a watered-down civil rights bill on which both North and South could agree. Chief architect and proud father of the compromise was Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas, who last week drew the venom of Fair Dealing Columnist Tom Stokes: "It was his aim to get a bill weak enough to keep his Southern colleagues from staging one of those filibusters that show the most nauseating side of the Dixie element that controls the Democratic Party in Congress ... a fraud." Eisenhower Labor...
Judge Kawachi sought to establish motive. "Did you think Girard fired the shot at the woman in fun?" he asked Army Specialist Third Class Victor Nickel, who was with Girard when he fired. "Yes-for a joke," Nickel replied. Then the judge drew from a Japanese prosecution witness the testimony that Girard had at least shouted a warning ("Get outa here") to the woman before he fired, whereupon Girard weakened his own case and astonished the courtroom by denying it. "These discrepancies baffle me," said Judge Kawachi in a genial interim verdict at week...
Bill of Complaint. Smarting under the criticism, 20 Latin American countries swiftly drew up a four-point petition counter-criticizing World Bank operations. They wanted 1) speedier loan consideration, 2) loan approval by their own governments rather than the bank, 3) loans in their own national currencies as well as foreign money, 4) granting of "general" loans, not just specific ones. A more telling complaint was added by Pakistan's M. A. Mozaffar: "The ratio of World Bank loans granted to the underdeveloped countries of Asia and the Middle East declined from...
Whipple said that three definite radio contacts with the satellite must be made before its orbit can be calculated. He drew up a tentative orbit on which the satellite passed over the United States crossing the Canadian border into western Montana and leaving over the southern Texas-Louisiana border into the Gulf of Mexico...
Larry R. Johnson '58, president of the Student Council, and Susan Olsen '58, president of the Radcliffe Student Government, met yesterday morning with John A. Ballard, Assistant Dean of the College, and drew up a four-point plan for analyzing the question of Radcliffe membership in Harvard undergraduate activities...