Word: knights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks the experts studied their find. Unwrapping and comparing a 2,500-year-old mummy from Liverpool University, they measured the shrinkage of the bones to determine that the woman had died two decades ago, probably in 1940. Police missing-persons files helped establish her identity: a Mrs. Frances Knight, who was last seen in March 1940. Mrs. Knight was then 56, and known to be ailing...
...voter registration, but Nixon leads the polls. Stevenson Democrats in vote-heavy Southern California are lukewarm for Kennedy. The Democratic organization is sundered into half a dozen wings. By contrast, Nixon has crafted an able cadre of workers since 1946, and they have overcome the chaos left by the Knight-Knowland fight for the gubernatorial nomination in 1958. Khrushchev is a big issue, and Cabot Lodge is warmly regarded. On his home grounds, Nixon leads...
...curious thing is that although this moving picture is schizoid, most of its faces are worth attention. The problems -Preston's apart-are convincingly presented, and in general the solutions are not pat. Actress McGuire plays a limited part well, and Shirley Knight is outstandingly effective as the tormented daughter...
...Full text of the actual "obligation" taken by members of the Knights of Columbus' top Fourth Degree: "I swear to support the Constitution of the "United States. I pledge myself, as a Catholic citizen and a Knight of Columbus, fully to enlighten myself upon my duties as a citizen and conscientiously perform them entirely in the interest of my country, regardless of all personal consequences. I pledge myself to do all in my power to preserve the integrity and purity of the ballot and to promote respect for law and order. I promise to practice my religion consistently...
...digging deep." There is an out-group too, people who find Sahl too brash and offensive. Warmth is simply not his gift, but this is not to say, as is often claimed, that he is a nihilist or that he hates everything. "His people" see him as the black knight of the implied positive-an idealist whose darkly critical moods really imply a yearning for perfection. "If I criticize somebody, it's only because I have higher hopes for the world," he says in a solemn moment, "something good to replace the bad." And, he might have added, because...