Word: edward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bobby Joe Sales, 23, was killed in Montgomery last spring, when one officer shot the unarmed man in the back and another rammed his fallen body with a car. Officer Ralph Conner said he thought Sales was reaching for a gun. Conner's cousin, officer Edward Spivey, allegedly then hit Sales' body with his car. The police chief called the incident a "tragic mistake," and refused to suspend the officers involved...
...wholesale grocer and a newspaper prepared last week to operate the first commercial television service in the U. S. Edward G. McDougall of Libby McNeill & Libby, food firm, has long been a television enthusiast. Like other television amateurs he has been impatient because the country's 26 experimental stations have not reached a large public because amateurs have had difficulty in buying proper receiving sets. He consulted William S. Hedges, president of the Chicago Daily News radio station WMAQ. He said that if the Daily News would construct a television broadcasting station, Libby McNeill & Libby would...
...which stood a gold cross and two yellow tapers. By it in a clean white surplice stood the Rev. R. Anderson Jardine awaiting the greatest moment in his life. Hollow-eyed, the Duke of Windsor stepped in a moment later, accompanied by his elegantly groomed best man, Major Edward Dudley ("Fruity") Metcalfe. While Organist Marcel Dupre played the march from Handel's Judas Maccabeus, entered (Bessie) Wallis Warfield (Spencer) (Simpson) on the arm of the faithful Herman Rogers. She wore a dress that most U. S. department stores were soon to feature: soft blue crepe with a tight, buttoned...
...bills are percolating in Congress. Democratic Congressman Stanley Lundine of New York has introduced legislation to set up a national industrial-development bank and a council composed of representatives from Government, business, labor and the public that would, among other things, suggest a strategy for targeting federal aid. Senator Edward Kennedy heads a task force of Senate Democrats that is expected to unveil its proposals by November...
...says Irwin Winkler, one of the film's producers. "By condensing Wolfe's book into the drama of a film, Glenn became more sympathetic." Kaufman points out that shooting was wrapped up in October 1982; he contends, somewhat ingenuously, that it was only in December, when Senator Edward Kennedy announced he would not seek the Democratic nomination, that it dawned on him that The Right Stuff might have political resonance. Says Winkler: "The politics caught up with the movie, not the movie with the politics." The film makers say they never received a call from Glenn...