Word: felted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there had been any doubt about Fortas' fate, none remained after Minority Leader Everett Dirksen pulled a 180° switch and announced that he now felt "duty bound" to vote against cloture. Last summer Dirksen gave the President his approval of the appointment. But as opposition to Fortas swelled-22 of the Senate's 37 Republicans are now against him-Dirksen's leadership has grown shaky, and he is not unmindful that as a rambunctious Congressman in 1965, Griffin helped turn aging Charles Halleck out of the House minority leadership...
Propaganda Barrage. Nowhere is Europe's new mood of angst felt more keenly than in West Germany. Last week, as the Bundestag met for a two-day debate on the new threat to West Germany's security, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger expressed his people's anxiety in careful, guarded terms. "The events in Czechoslovakia compel us to exercise a high degree of vigilance," he said. "While the nuclear balance has diminished the threat of an all-out nu clear war, it also made a conventional attack by a potential enemy no longer seem impossible...
...graduate student at Berkeley, devised two of the beam-focusing techniques that enabled Lawrence to build the first of the big atom smashers, Lawrence failed to mention Livingston in his patent application and generally avoided crediting him for his work. When Livingston complained, Lawrence coldly suggested that if he felt dissatisfied he was free to drop out of the cyclotron project...
...Looking. There is no evidence that Georgia Power complained, but its influence is so pervasive in Atlanta that it does not have to. The night the column appeared, B.J. learned that Tarver felt her column should be limited to "topics she is qualified to write about." Next morning B.J.'s resignation was on Patterson's desk...
Died. Constantine John Philip Ionides, 67, the legendary Snake Man of East Africa, whose slithery pets often bit the hand that fed them; of coronary thrombosis; in Nairobi. Sandhurst-trained lonides felt more at home among animals than among men, whom he called "the least interesting of all animals." A devoted herpetologist, he discovered four new species of snakes and hunted down 22 rare species of mammals for the world's zoos and museums. Even after his legs were amputated because of illness, he continued to stalk the bush-in a wheelchair...