Word: franks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy died. "The family were right around him," said Cuneo. "They'd all been at his bedside for hours. Ethel was on one side of the Senator, Ted was on the other." Kennedy never regained consciousness. "It wasn't a question of sinking," reported his grief-stricken press secretary, Frank Mankiewicz. "It was a question of not rising...
...Frank Learoyd Boyden, D.H., headmaster of Deerfield Academy for 66 years. As a discerning teacher and enthusiastic sportsman, he led his own students to full participation in that ancient ideal, mens sana in corpore sano [a sound mind in a sound body...
...newsmen and their producers seemed themselves too numbed to grasp full command of the story until several hours after the shooting. Huntley and Brinkley seemed uncommonly beside the point; the early reporting hours demanded more footwork and fast talk-and less punditry. NBC anchorman Frank McGee shared with Sander Vanocur the credit for the coolest and ablest reporting on any channel...
...curtail marijuana use by requiring those who deal in the drug to register and pay a tax? Since possession of pot is illegal in every state-even when the tax is paid-and since the name of anyone buying a tax stamp is made public, U.S. District Court Judge Frank Theis ruled last month in Wichita, Kans., that practically speaking the law cannot be enforced constitutionally. Following the reasoning of the U.S. Supreme Court, which found similar defects in tax laws dealing with guns and gamblers, Theis held that enforcement of the marijuana tax violated the constitutional guarantee against selfincrimination...
...shot put record of 58' 11 1/2"; captain Jeff Huvelle broke a 50-year-old record in the 440-yard dash; Steve Schoonover became the first Ivy League polevaulter to go 16 feet; Roy Shaw and Jim Baker made several valiant but futile runs at the four minute mile; Frank Haggerty established himself as one of the nation's best hurdlers before a freak accident cut short his senior season. More than anything else Harvard lacked experience, but there may be help from the freshmen and there is a transfer student from Northeastern who is expected to provide some...