Word: ev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FLATT AND SCRUGGS AT CARNEGIE HALL (Columbia). Flatt, the Ev Dirksen of country talkin', and Scruggs, the Paganini of the five-string banjo, in further fruitful collaboration-this time before a downhome crowd up North...
...Senate begin to fill. It was known that Dirksen, after harboring "grave doubts," had come around to approval. It was also known that in order to dispel some of the doubts about the treaty, Dirksen and Majority Leader Mansfield had asked President Kennedy to write a letter that Ev would read to the Senate. In his letter, the President offered Senate doubters "unqualified and unequivocal assurances" that the U.S. would maintain its readiness to resume testing, that it would "take all necessary action" if Russia used Cuba to circumvent the test ban in any way, and that the treaty would...
When it was all over, Mike Mansfield rose, faced his colleague across the aisle, and said, "I salute a great American." The debate may go on until some time next week, but after Ev Dirksen, it would surely be all anticlimax. For his support of the treaty, and his speech on its behalf, had assured its ratification...
Young Knowles moves his arm cautiously, and wiggles his fingers slowly. But arm and fingers are sensitive to touch, heat and cold. Though the M.G.H. surgeons admit that these are "hopeful signs," they insist that they still cannot predict how fully Ev will recover the use of the arm. He faces many more months of treatment...
...neighborhoods and Jews were moving out. Lewis got to know the newcomers; he had gone to work for the city as a housing inspector. More and more, as the South Side slums grew too oppressive for the Negro population, the 24th became their haven-and Lewis their leader. "Ev ery time that iron ball bats down one of those slum buildings on the South Side," Lewis said happily, "20 Negro families move west. Every time that ball strikes, my position as West Side Negro leader becomes much stronger...