Word: edward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Civil Liberties Union has offered to defend the five, and Ferber and some of the others have accepted. Dr. Spock said he is retaining his own lawyer. Washington criminal lawyer Edward Bennett Williams is rumored to be considering taking the case for the ACLU...
Sleazy Money. The Suffolk County water authority, Newsday reported, had prohibited industrial development of vacant land in central Islip for fear that waste products would pollute the water supply. But when Water Authority Member (and Islip Republican Party Leader) Edward McGowan's firm bought the land, the authority changed its mind and approved its rezoning for manufacturing. McGowan sold the tract for a $167,000 profit. The scandal reached even to Newsday's doorstep. Its Suffolk editor, Kirk Price, who died last March, made $33,000 by a sale of land that he had bought...
Responding to the complaints, the state in recent years has adopted ever-tougher curbs on the strippers. Most stringent of all was the order signed this month by outgoing Governor Edward T. Breathitt ten hours before turning over his office to incoming Republican Louie B. Nunn. The order forbids strip miners from working slopes steeper than 28°. Straight up in the air went the industry, thundering that it would be driven out of business, which was exactly what it said last year when the maximum slope was put at 33°. Since then, new operations have doubled...
After Washkansky died, the man who had made the transplant possible was despondent. Said Edward Darvall: "There was at least part of my daughter alive, and now it's all gone. I feel empty." (In fact, one of her kidneys, transplanted to Jonathan Van Wyk, 10, was still working well.) Brooklyn's Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, whose own heart-transplant operation had failed two weeks earlier, expressed his sorrow, then added: "However, I believe that the operation performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard represents a great step forward...
...competition winners responsible for the new design are three previously almost totally unknown New York City designers teaching at Columbia: Gerhard Kallmann, Noel McKinnell and Edward Knowles. Of the three, only Knowles was then licensed to practice, and none of them had ever built a major structure of any kind before. In other words, they knew as much about what a city hall should be as most of their competitors...