Word: jr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elizabeth, N.J., after one of the longest and costliest trials in the state's history (16 weeks, $750,000), a jury convicted two Negroes and freed eight others in the murder of Patrolman John V. Gleason Jr. In the midst of the five-day race riot in Plainfield in 1967, Gleason, 39, the father of three, shot and wounded a youth who had attacked him with a hammer. He was surrounded by an angry mob of Negroes and stomped, hacked and shot to death. Sentenced to life in prison were Gail Madden, 22, a 250-pounder, whom witnesses identified...
...individual whose highly eloquent defense of conservatism has remained a constant source of delight to many of us, the man who has mastered the art of the intelligent putdown: William F. Buckley Jr...
...temperature of 101.6, was one of many notables felled by the virus. Others: Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Mamie Eisenhower, Senator Edmund Muskie, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle Wheeler, and White House National Security Adviser Walt Rostow. Mayors seemed susceptible; Atlanta's Ivan Allen Jr. and Boston's Kevin White joined Daley on the sick list...
Divorced. Sammy Davis Jr., 43, diminutive, jumping jack-of-all show business and one of the world's highest-paid Negro entertainers; by May Britt, 31, lissome Swedish actress, on grounds of mental cruelty; after eight years of marriage, three children, two of them adopted; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Exactly one year after it began, the eleven-union strike against the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner is technically a stalemate. Publisher George R. Hearst Jr., 41, grandson of the crusading William Randolph, still directs a staff of strike breakers inside his boarded-up building. Behind other barricades just a block away, some 50 strikers still gather each day to dispense food and subsistence checks, plot strategy and pounce hopefully on every rumor of Hearst's troubles. Actually, the strike is over-and the clear winner is George Hearst...