Word: gores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dead: 422. Injured: more than 20,000. Cause: driving on those happy, blood-soaked holidays, Christmas and New Year's. As the last twisted wreck was towed away, the last bits of glass and gore rinsed off the asphalt, lawyers and insurance companies began the dreary job of figuring up the price tag on destruction. Determining who pays how much for auto accidents is far and away the biggest legal business in the U.S. today...
...committee consists of Democratic Senators Pastore of Rhode Island, Richard Russell of Georgia, Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico, Albert Gore of Tennessee, Henry M. Jackson of Washington; Republican Senators Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, George Aiken of Vermont, Wallace F. Bennett of Utah, Carl Curtis of Nebraska; Democratic Representatives Chet Holifield of California, Melvin Price of Illinois, Wayne Aspinall of Colorado, Albert Thomas of Texas, Thomas G. Morris of New Mexico; Republican Representatives Craig Hosmer of California, William Bates of Massachusetts, Jack Westland of Washington and John B. Anderson of Illinois...
...just read a news item that said you had obtained a non-commissioned jet airplane for Crossville High School because their football team is called the Jets," began a letter from Ray Daiton, 15, a young Tennessee constituent of Democratic Senator Albert Gore, 55. "Well, Norris High School's basketball team is called the Senators, and I was wondering if you knew where we could find an old Senator just lying around not doing anyone any good. We would like to place him in front of our school. Since Norris is primarily a TVA town, you better send...
...Reject It." As Morton sat down, Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore sprang to his feet, praised him for his speech, then seconded it in powerful words: "I accept no blame for what this demented man did. I feel no sense of personal guilt. He is the one who had become a fanatic. Why should all America be blamed for the actions of one fanatic? True, our society has many problems and imperfections, much stress and distress, hate, fear and disappointment; but it is an injustice to our millions of people of good will, even the teeming thousands of hospitable, cheering people...
...reject it for myself and for my people," said Gore. "This was an act of a madman...