Word: holding
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...breathing. Ervine Turner, who died last year after a 40-year career as state senator, school superintendent and circuit judge, first became a power in the mountainous area when he brought Breathitt the benefits of the New Deal. His death did nothing to weaken his family's Snopesian hold on the county. His wife Marie served as county school superintendent for 38 years until her retirement last June, and still remains president of the Citizens Bank of Jackson, the county seat. Their son John is a state senator. Their daughter, Mrs. Treva Turner Howell, continues the old family tradition...
Touching First Base. At a court hearing in Wilkes-Barre last week, Dinis did not specify what he expected to learn from an autopsy on Mary Jo's body. His associate, Assistant D.A. Armand Fernandes Jr., argued that to hold an inquest without an autopsy would be "like hitting a home run without touching first base." If an autopsy had been ordered soon after the accident, it might have determined such facts as what time Miss Kopechne died and whether she had suffered a concussion that prevented her from trying to get out of the car. The Edgartown medical...
...that Hodges is a bit too commanding. Says Cleveland's flamboyant outfielder, Ken ("The Hawk") Harrelson, who played for Washington during Hodges' five-year stewardship of the Senators: "He was unfair, unreasonable, unfeeling, incapable of handling men, stubborn, holier-than-thou and ice-cold." But the Mets seem to hold an altogether different view. Koosman sums up the team's attitude: "Hodges is one hell of a leader. He always has time to talk to you, he has a good sense of humor, and if he's distant, it's because he never wants to embarrass himself or the team...
Nationally, Negroes hold only 2% of the 800,000 best-paying construction jobs and only 7.2% of all 2,900,000 building-crafts jobs. The disparity is greater in some areas, including Pittsburgh. A recent study by the mayor's Commission on Human Relations found that blacks made up 49% of the city laborers' union, but that Negro membership in most of the 25 other Pittsburgh building unions was under 2%. The unions representing electricians, ironworkers, asbestos workers and elevator-construction men are 100% white...
Shaw the iconoclast was not exempt from the Victorian passion for theological speculation. "Mere agnosticism leads nowhere," he once wrote. "I hold as firmly as St. Thomas Aquinas that all truths, ancient or modern, are divinely inspired." Shaw believed in evolution, but was worried about the diverse effects of Darwinist thinking. He agreed, with Samuel Butler, that "by banishing purpose from natural history Darwin had banished mind from the universe." Shaw would have no part of a universe from which a first-rate mind (such as his own) was expelled...