Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROBERT F. BROMAN Evanston, Ill...
...Independence Avenue, much legislative initiative had been purloined from him. Already, other liberal Democrats had laid the groundwork for the two most important pieces of HEW legislation that would concern him in his 18-month tenure-aid to education and medicare. As it turned out, much of the ill-starred medicare bill was actually written by Congress, with little help from Ribicoff. All he could do was get behind the measures and push them as Administration bills. Yet when the bills ran into trouble, many Democrats pointed a carping finger...
Across the U.S., some 250 condemned men are languishing behind bars, waiting to be executed for their crimes. Almost all of them could join in the lament of Paul Orville Crump, an inmate of Cook County (Ill.) jail: "I don't want to die. I want to live." To the State of Illinois, Crump is Prisoner 143384, male Negro, age 32-a convicted murderer sentenced to die in the electric chair Aug. 3. Crump's fight for life has stirred the biggest and most surprising outburst of clemency pleas since the Caryl Chessman case two years...
...preserve order on Franco's death. Franco envisages Munoz Grandes, who suffers from both ulcers and heart trouble, not as the future chief of state but only as the head of a caretaker government backed by the strongly monarchist army. "If Franco should die or suddenly fall ill," explained one Franco aide, "Munoz Grandes will be at the head of the government dignitaries waiting at the airport to greet either Don Juan or his son, Prince Juan Carlos-whichever the regime chooses as successor." Should a mishap befall Franco in the next five or six years, his successor will...
Evergreen Park, Ill., Drury Lane: Joan Bennett as the Britisher-mama in The Reluctant Debutante...