Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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*Edner's death followed Harry Truman's 1947 decision to help stem Red aggression in Greece. Smith and Williams died in the airlift that foiled the 1948-49 Berlin blockade. Harding and Goodwin were the first Americans killed in Korea after North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel in...
Among Gideon-released prisoners, the rate of recidivism (return to crimes) was only 13.6%, as compared with 25.4% among other Florida prisoners released when their sentences expired normally. Hindsight suggests a possible reason: those who applied for release under the Gideon ruling ranked surprisingly higher in mental and physical health...
Lady L. Careering madly through the countryside, a battered Daimler eats up both sides of the road, veers away into grassy fields, finally wheezes to a halt at one of England's stateliest homes. Out of the limousine steps Sophia Loren as Lady L, a spruce 80-year-old...
Walker is invited to be Visiting Writer at Benedict Arnold University, located somewhere east of the Rockies, where some of the freshmen can hardly write their names in the dust with a stick, and where Scrabble, wife-swapping and Red-baiting are the faculty pursuits. With its Disneyland-cum-Mies...
The U.S. House of Representatives provides a convenient scoreboard for party strength, since all its members will come up for re-election. A year ago, when it was not clear that Vietnam would overshadow all other issues, many observers thought that the Democrats could escape with minimal losses. Many of...