Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operators on the northernmost tip of Hokkaido Island radioed a warning. "You are off course," chided the Japanese. "Turn south." But the message was lost amid crackling static, and Seaboard World Airlines Flight 25 3 A was already 80 nautical miles north of its course. Moments lat er, Pilot Joseph Tosolini was radioing that intercepting MIG fighters were forcing him to land on Iturup, one of the Soviet Kurile Islands. For Tosolini, 214 U.S. servicemen bound for Viet Nam aboard Flight 253A and the crew of 16, the interrupted maiden flight of the brand-new giant DC-8 jetliner turned...
...which are needed to protect the American people against insane and reckless murder by gunfire." Congressional reaction was muted. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, under heavy pressure from Montana hunters to oppose gun-control legislation, compromised by repeating his support for a moderate law sponsored by Maryland's Joseph Tydings while rejecting Johnson's measure requiring the registration of all firearms in the U.S. Congressional mail, which had overwhelmingly supported tough gun controls after Senator Kennedy's death, once again responded to the gun lobby's orchestration. Letters opposing gun controls began rising in volume...
...point out that he has belonged to the Church of England since his London boyhood. Though Chicago Daily News Columnist Virginia Kay awarded him "the Shockingly Bad Taste Award of the Year, Decade and Century," teenagers across the country latched onto the dresses by the rackful. Commented Monsignor Joseph T.V. Snee, who oversees all 8,000 Catholic nuns in the Archdiocese of New York: "If the women of our times have now decided to imitate the religious garb of our sisters, I sure wish they would also try to imitate their habits-especially those of modesty, purity and chastity...
...week when the hatch of an Apollo lunar vehicle opened and three smiling astronauts clambered out. In a giant vacuum chamber at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, the bearded, bone-tired trio had just spent eight days simulating a trip to the moon and back. Reported Spacecraft Commander Joseph Kerwin: "A prime reason for the mission was to come back and say 'Yes sir, the darned thing works.' We sure are going to be able to report that...
Badges & Incidents. The source of the ruling was something of a surprise-even to the people who brought the case. In 1965, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lee Jones had tried to buy a $30,000 house in a new St. Louis development. They were refused because Mr. Jones was a Negro; and they sued the developer. In his search for supporting statutes, their lawyer, Samuel Liberman, came across the 1866 act and tossed it into his brief almost as an afterthought. He thought it was good tactics to try everything. "I figured, 'What have we got to lose...