Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high jungle, although just what they had been doing there remains a matter of some dispute. Word that they were on the way had somehow preceded them to Muyupampa. Detachments of troops and plainclothes national police had moved into town the night before. They arrested the men without a fight...
...event got under way the night of May 5, 1925, the gravelly voice of Announcer Joe Humphreys boomed over the crowd: "Farewell to thee, O Tem ple of Fistiana, farewell to thee, O sweet Miss Diana." He climbed from the ring, sobbing. Next day Lawyer-Statesman Elihu Root and Fight Promoter Tex Rickard stood together bare headed in the rain as a derrick lowered Diana from her pedestal...
...stockholder who disagreed with Levin was Edgar Bronfman, who bought into MGM and then sold off his holdings in 1966 on a misplaced hunch that if Levin's proxy battles failed, the stock would settle down in price. After the last proxy fight, Bronfman began to buy back in. He had acquired over 400,000 shares when he was approached this summer by Levin, who wanted to buy Bronfman's stock or get his aid in another proxy fight. When Bronfman refused both propositions, Levin decided to sell. He will make a pre-tax profit of more than...
...judgment. He has yet to see it though-and probably never will because Linsenmeyer seems to have no attachable assets. It was all too much for Jackson's wife, Billie, and after 40 years of marriage, she left him. "We didn't have a fight or an argument or a dispute," says Jackson spiritlessly. "I just couldn't feed her. I don't blame her. She could take the ups, but she couldn't take the downs...
...incumbent Democrat in that F.D.R. landslide year. In 1944, he became the first Senator since the Civil War to resign his seat for active combat, joining an armored corps in Europe as a major. Lodge returned to the Senate after the war more internationalist than ever, led the fight in pushing through the Marshall plan and NATO over the opposition of conservative Republicans...