Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen Juliana spoke out bluntly on the palace crisis that has rocked the House of Orange-Nassau. The royal disharmony manifest between Juliana and her consort, much-traveling Prince Bernhard, apparently focused on the Queen's now renounced ties with Faith Healer Greet Hofmans (TIME, June 25 et seq.). Said Juliana: "Why . . . do some people attack someone by devious means with false claims? Why . . . do they try to drive a wedge between a man and a woman in vain attempts to destroy a deeply rooted unity? . . . Do not I, too, have the right to try to be myself...
Accountants summed up the estate of Sportsman William Woodward Jr., accidentally shot to death 14 months ago by his wife Ann in her belief that he was a prowler (TIME, Nov. 7, 1955 et seq.). Inheritance taxes will gobble more than $6,000,000 of his net estate of $10,186,299. Ann was left the life income from a $1,300,000 trust; upon her death, their two sons are to get her trust principal...
...State of Tenessee and its governor? Is it still a state of the Union or has it abdicated entirely to the Federal Government?" States'-Righter Lawrence was reflecting the anguish and anger of other states'-righters as the Clinton, Tenn. integration case (TIME, Sept. 10 et seq.) moved from the local schoolroom to the federal courtroom with the arraignment last week of 16 segregationist leaders before a federal judge on con-tempt-of-court charges...
After deliberating for only 88 minutes, a Manhattan jury last week convicted three minor figures in the acid blinding of Labor Columnist Victor Riesel (TIME, Sept. 10 et ante). Two were sentenced to five years in federal prison, the other to two years. Scheduled for trial this week: Mob Chief Johnny Dio (real name: Dioguardi), 42, charged with plotting the attack to keep Riesel from testifying in a grand-jury investigation of trucking-and garment-industry rackets...
Humphrey, Douglas, et al may learn a lesson from Johnson's affirmation that legislative programs must be achieved in Congress. On the Senate floor they will have an opportunity to advance a liberal Democratic platform, and in that house's working they may be able to put much of it into...