Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ATLANTA FRACTURE Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. closes out eight years in office with the simple explanation that "I've shot my wad and it's time for somebody else to come along...
...cause enough of a thud to give earthbound seismologists a good calibration test of the new lunar seismometer. Next, the astronauts will shoot a series of closeup photographs of the moon, using both ordinary and infra-red film to help NASA planners pick out landing sites for the remaining eight Apollo missions. Finally, Yankee Clipper's engine will be fired once again to begin the long, leisurely journey back to earth. Ten days 4 hr. 30 min. after it sets off from Cape Kennedy, Apollo 12 should splash down in the Pacific, 525 miles east of Samoa...
Defense attorneys at the raucous trial of the Chicago Eight are doing their best to show that U.S. District Judge Julius Hoffman is biased. The little jurist often seems determined to prove them right. Before the jury, he has praised U.S. Attorney Thomas Foran as one of the finest prosecutors in the country. On the other hand, he badgers and belittles lawyers for the eight men who are charged with conspiracy to foment a riot at last year's Democratic Convention in Chicago...
...bring the Moratorium into the courtroom. After an angry exchange, Foran growled: "I have contempt for Mr. Kunstler." The judge rebuked only Kunstler. As the dominant figure in the courtroom, a judge can easily influence the jury if his likes and dislikes are too obvious. If convicted, the Chicago Eight are likely to argue on appeal that they were unable to get a fair trial because of Hoffman's attitude...
...believes himself to be. He started his company with $25,000 borrowed from his father, bought IBM computers and leased them to users at rates below IBM's own rental charges. He could undercut IBM's prices because he was willing to risk depreciating the computers over eight instead of four years, gambling successfully on a longer useful life of the equipment. From this base he moved into related fields, buying a container-leasing company and developing software, data and time-sharing operations...