Word: ill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHARLES WALLACE PACKER Winnetka, Ill...
After a few minutes, the state attorney passed a note to the bench: "The No. 1 juror is either ill or under the influence. He has not opened his eyes since coming into the courtroom." The astounded judge had Shead awakened. Then he angrily declared a mistrial and sentenced the surprised juror to 30 days for contempt of court. Shead was immediately packed off to the county jail, and last week the judge ordered a hearing to determine whether he should be transferred to an alcoholic rehabilitation center...
...best way to guard Video Boy against any ill effects of TV, says Wilbur Schramm, director of Stanford's Institute for Communications Research, "is to make him feel loved and secure at home, and so far as possible surround him with friends and activities...
...pioneer in the office copying field, American Photocopy Equipment Co. was a Wall Street favorite back in the 1950s. Then it faded fast. Trouble was, while the Evanston, Ill., firm had scored its success with machines that turned out wet copies, other companies-notably Xerox-were building huge new markets with "dry" electrostatic copiers requiring no messy chemical developers. APECO tried to do the same, but its first electrostatic machines were plagued by costly production defects. From a 1961 high of $4,925,000, its profits went downhill, and in 1966 the firm finished with a deficit...
...naval bombardment north of the 17th parallel. Trinh's assurance--the first Hanoi has ever given publicly--stirred the sudden and exhilarating hope that a major obstacle on the road to peace had been swept away. Only three months previously, President Johnson appeared to mute his earlier--and ill-advised--demand that the North Vietnamese de-escalate their military activities in exchange for the bombing halt required to initiate talks. In a September 30 speech at San Antonio, Johnson said he only "assumed" the North Vietnamese would not "take advantage" of a respite from the bombing. This statement was more...