Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOSEPH WILSON, '68 Swarthmore College Swarthmore...
...Last member of Congress to be censured was Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954. The last Representative was Thomas Blanton of Texas, who was reprimanded in 1921 for inserting salacious material in the Congressional Record. Blanton also pressured the House Stationery Room to obtain a whisky flask for him-during Prohibition-and then used the flask as an example of the wares available at the Stationery Room...
...will go hungry to gain our economic independence," said the Congo's President Joseph Mobutu when he nationalized Union Minière du Haut Katanga on Jan. 1. General Mobutu's economically shortsighted advisers clapped their approval, scoffed at the prospect of a mass exodus of Belgian technicians. "Pay them," one aide predicted, "and they will do anything." It did not turn out that way. Union Minière's management immediately chose to pull out. Shipments and, consequently, sales came to a standstill. Only five of 2,000 engineers and technicians opted to stay on under...
...country clubs as Greenwich's Stanwich, Rye's Manursing Island and New Canaan's Country Club like paddle tennis because, though the courts cost $5,000 apiece, they are cheap to maintain and keep the club open year-round. Individuals build courts too: Philip Morris President Joseph Cullman III, for example, has two courts on his Briarcliff Manor estate, normally entertains a dozen paddle-playing guests each weekend throughout the winter. All told, the American Platform Tennis Association estimates, there are some 500 courts in the U.S., and enthusiasts will go to great lengths...
Died. Francis Joseph ("Muggsy") Spanier, 60, another of Dixieland's good men tried and true, a cornetist who in the 1920s and early '30s was the rage of Chicago speakeasy society, went on to tour the land with Ted Lewis, Ben Pollack, and eventually with his own Dixieland band, surviving bop and all the new styles until 1964 when ill health forced his retirement; of a heart disease; in Sausalito, Calif...