Word: file
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many readers kept asking, "Is this a record?" To answer them, Dr. Flack did a great deal of digging, and eventually he settled on the case of Hilda Gosney, who was born April 19, 1906, at Knottingley in Yorkshire, when her mother (as attested by the birth certificate on file at Somerset House in London) was 53 years, 7 months and 12 days old. Nobody seems to have bothered to ask Mr. Gosney's first name, but it is recorded that he was 75 at the time. And the record-breaking mother lived to be almost 94. The child...
...Roosevelt, and as a crusadingly liberal public servant under two other Democratic Presidents, James McCauley Landis was known as an unyielding champion of integrity in law and government. But last month (TIME, Aug. 9) Landis appeared in a Manhattan Federal Court to plead guilty on charges of failing to file federal income-tax returns on $360,000, which he earned from 1956 to 1960. It was not, he insisted, that he had intended to be a tax cheater. It was just that he had been too busy to fill out his tax returns. Last week Landis was sentenced...
...strong but in local police forces that are too weak." In day-to-day police work, the lack of liaison between forces-more than 50% have fewer than 350 men-inevitably helps the criminal. Another boon to careful crooks: a law by which police are only allowed to file fingerprints of convicted criminals, not of suspects...
...citizens who have had their drivers' licenses revoked for drunken driving or who have been in a fatal crash are listed in a master file, against which the computer can check any new license application and flash a reply within 24 hours to the state that sends it. Although there is a move on to broaden the machine's purview, present law prevents the computer from registering any other offense (parking, running red lights, etc.), and subsequent acquittals, or other altered court judgments are caught by interstate exchange of records. So far, only the District of Columbia, Missouri...
...midafternoon almost every day this month, mannerly crowds file into the drab and muggy Festspielhaus in Bayreuth to witness an opera by Rich ard Wagner. It is nearly midnight when they file out again - hungry and exhausted, perhaps, but elevated by a sense of hard cultural accomplishment. The music, as always, has worked its mystic wonders on them, but - except for that band of initiates known as Wagnerites - the drama has left them plagued by the kind of metaphysical confusion that comes from attending services at somebody else's church...