Word: flips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zealots' Creed. After a night's sleep and a breakfast pep talk to western Republicans, the President headed a 30-car caravan that rolled through spectacular canyons to the site of the $287 million McNary Dam, on the Oregon border. On hand to flip a switch activating the dam's fifth generator, the President took occasion to define one of the West's most vital issues: public v. private power. It was a bold, effective, potentially dangerous speech...
...began life with a flip and flap...
Born. To Albert ("Flip") Rosen, 28, crack third baseman for the Cleveland Indians and last season the American League's Most Valuable Player and home-run king (43 homers), and Terese Ann Rosen, 23: their first child, a son. Name: Robert Terrell. Weight...
Fritchey's diversionary attack concerned the Smaldone brothers. Eugene ("Checkers") and Clyde ("Flip Flop"), whose Colorado gambling empire netted them $1,000,000 yearly. Checkers was charged with income-tax evasion, but the first jury could not reach a verdict. While a second jury was being assembled, both brothers were caught trying to bribe prospective jurymen. Federal Judge Willis W. Ritter* sentenced them each to 60 years, then remarked indignantly from the bench, "I don't understand why the U.S. Department of Justice . . . should refuse to assist [in the case] . . . but they did." U.S. Attorney Charles S. Vigil...
...Treasury agents did much of the investigating, but the FBI arrested both Checkers and Flip Flop, and an FBI man was a Government witness at their trial...