Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uncommitted upon whom the election may hang was hurriedly schooling himself in Republican senatorial politics and protocol. He is Ralph Smith, 53, a self-styled flexible conservative who was speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives until last week, when Governor Richard Ogilvie appointed him to fill the late Everett Dirksen's Senate post until next year's election...
...York: "They were trying to help the brothers-you can see what that got them." Now many blacks see the case of Edward Kennedy as a plot to remove one more hope. "Just like King and Bobby Kennedy," says Pfc. Carl Horsley, 19, "They gon' try to hang Teddy 'cause he was on the side of the brothers." To most black soldiers, Nixon doesn't even bear discussion. "If he were a brother," says Ronald Washington, a black sailor from Los Angeles, "he'd be the number one Uncle...
...republic into "a Czechoslovakia." Even the importation of some 4,000 mostly leftist émigrés by bus, train and taxi could not salvage the Communists' hopes. For another thing, there were those 450 safe votes flown in from the U.S., which helped the ruling coalition to hang on to all but one of the 39 seats that it was defending in the 60-man council. If the well-heeled Christian Democrats thought the airlift worth the $64,000 or more that it cost the party, so did the shuttle voters. Said Secondo Moretti, a Detroit bricklayer...
Girls themselves are under a spotlight when they go out or have visitors. In each dorm there is a cadre of people who hang around the bells desk, serving their own purposes but also observing all the comings and goings. Everyone knows who everyone else spends time with and talks about it in the interest of friendship. Some girls pick their dates for their friends rather than themselves. Girls who don't go out at all feel miserable and inferior. They are instantly typed...
...great aid" to the admissions process, "We must remember that it's only one of many things we're looking for. There are a lot of guys more interesting and more desirable than the potential summa. But if you get somebody with a 1.6 who looks like he'll hang together for four years, you've got to take...