Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover a variety-store counter, he asked the Senator to empty the contents on the spot. Dirksen complied: a pocket knife, a St. Christopher medal, an empty leather pillbox, a cold sniffer, an odd-shaped piece of rough jade, a magnifying reading glass, a 1955 medal of the Kewanee. Ill., Masonic Lodge, a silver dollar money clip, two heavily burdened key rings, and a quarter...
...Ooze," "the Liberace of the Senate," and "Oleaginous Ev." They claim that he was born with a golden thesaurus in his mouth, that he marinates his tonsils in honey. They say that he got his cornball ways from working for the Corn Products Refining Co. plant in Pekin. Ill., his home town, and that his felicity for hot air is a result of his stint as a World War I balloonist...
Protestants and even other Catholics joined in chiding America. Dr. Truman Douglass of the United Church of Christ called the editorial "ill-advised." The lay edited Catholic weekly Commonweal pointed out that "our whole system would become meaningless if the various minority groups were made to fear any resort to the courts to judge their claims...
Outside, on the sun-soaked Du Quoin, Ill., State Fair grounds, hawkers hawked everything from fake jewelry to trusses and early American furniture. Girlie shows fringed the noisy midway. Prize hogs grunted, fat rabbits panted, chicken legs sputtered in deep fat. But most of the 37,718 fans jammed inside the gaily canopied grandstand and the adjacent bleachers had little use for such frippery. Their attention was focused on a burnished clay race track before them, where 15 sleek standardbreds were warming up for the start of trotting's annual classic-the $116,612 Hambletonian...
...living in the shadow of his dynamic, if ruthless father. But for David, inherited wealth, though a responsibility, is in no way oppressive. "The only question about wealth," says he, "is what you do with it." With his four brothers (Nelson, 54, Laurance, 52, Winthrop, 50, and John D. Ill, 56), David does plenty with Rockefeller wealth. Among them, the brothers are active in some 200 causes, ranging from the Rockefeller Institute for medical research to Colonial Williamsburg. Their generous philanthropies and their Inter national Basic Economy Corp., which underwrites businesslike ventures in developing lands, make it possible for helicopters...