Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Major General Sickles promptly had his eg packed carefully in a coffinlike box and ent it, with his formal calling card bear ing the legend "Compliments of D.E.S.." to the new Army Medical Museum in Washington. After pathologists had ex-mined the specimen, the bone was preserved. For years, on the anniversary of he amputation. Peg Leg Sickles went to visit his missing member, often taking friends to join in the macabre ceremony...
...John. A more plausible factor in Powell's defeat was the dogged campaign ing and colorful personality of the man who beat him : State Representative John Pillsbury, 44, of Manchester. Well-known in the legislature for his deep-lunged, shattering oratory, Big John (6 ft. 3 in., 225 Ibs. ) quit his job as a power-company executive to stump the state. He encouraged Powell's overconfidence by starting his drive in low key. then blistered Powell in the final weeks for his "one-man rule," his "personal machine" and his "negative thinking." He claimed that Powell had short...
Visions of Blame. In order to drama tize the vision of an obstructionist Congress, he hoped to get a favorable Senate vote on medicare, then blame the well-known coalition of Republicans and con servative Democrats in the House for kill ing it. He had good reason to believe that he could: the 64-36 Democratic majority in the Senate usually makes that body amenable. With that in mind, the Presi dent permitted his Senate leaders to attach a modified form of the King-Anderson medicare bill as an amendment to an unre lated welfare bill. This had the advantage...
...earthly comforts, the industry is concentrating on centrally located, massproduced air conditioning: last month the Hartford Gas Co. inaugurated the U.S.'s first utility-operated air-condition ing plant, which will offer metered air conditioning to any building in the entire downtown area. In Washington a builder has installed a central system for 134 new town houses, piping chilled and hot water into each and dispensing with the need for furnaces, hot-water heaters and chimneys...
Sack staffs his theaters carefully and keeps the help honest by ringing in an occasional private detective disguised as a moviegoer to make sure the audience count is correct. He is insistent on cleanliness, will berate usherettes for not pick ing up paper from the aisles and scold janitors when he finds dust in rest rooms. Sack likes to roam his lobbies, reminding women patrons that "this place is clean enough to bring your children to, right?" He has been known to step out of his $15,000, chauffeur-driven Cadillac in front of a Sack theater to hustle customers...