Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gerard will be best man in absentia; his father, Gerard Sr., will stand proxy for him. And so, after a ceremony of 60 minutes, Miss Luci Baines Johnson of the White House and Johnson City, Texas, will become the lawful wedded wife of Mr. Patrick John Nugent of Waukegan, Ill., a town hitherto famed mostly for the fact that it was the birthplace of Jack Benny...
...Washington, of parties and showers, of picking silverware (Old Maryland pattern) and china (Ambassador Limoges). After accompanying her father on a fast one-day swing through Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky late last month, she appeared so wan in public that the White House explained that she was exhausted, not ill. Nonetheless, at a press conference a few days earlier, Luci had proved more than a match for her inquisitors...
Extra Tanks. Like many other Green Berets, Stilwell had taken up flying, and it was his eagerness to log instrument time toward a commercial pilot's license that put him aboard last week's ill-fated flight. An old friend, Harold J. Grimes, 45, operator of a one-man West Coast air ferry service, was delivering a plane that a California winery had recently sold to the government of Thailand. Stilwell planned to go along as far as Hawaii, then return to the mainland. Taking a three-day pass from Fort Bragg, he went to San Francisco, first...
...said the court, was contradictory and "inconsistent." Baseball might be a monopoly, but it is a nationwide monopoly; therefore Wisconsin is "powerless" to make the sport subject to its state antitrust law. Besides, continued the Supreme Court, to order the Braves back from Atlanta would be to correct one ill with another: "such an outcome would maintain a monopoly at the expense of Atlanta...
Stagecoach. John Ford's pacemaking 1939 western pushed horse opera into the thoroughbred class, made a major star of John Wayne, and clinched an Academy Award for the late Thomas Mitchell, who gave a richly liquored-up performance as a thirsty, unshaven quack. In this ill-starred remake, Bing Crosby plays Mitchell's doctor role with more flippant humor, fewer prickly insights. Bing is good, but otherwise the movie suggests once more that Hollywood's twice-told tales seldom honor the past as much as they plunder...