Word: lames
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vaulter Lame...
When Jay Mahancy, the Crimson's leading vaulter, pulled up lame, Forte rose to the occasion, tying Dennis Hasset of the Jaspers at 12 ft., 6 in. Mahaney took third at 12 feet, to give the Crimson an event which Manhattan considered private property. Finally, Beckwith's 23-foot broad jump (which led another Crimson sweep), and Ed Meehan's authoritative grasp of the two-mile, helped pound nails into the Jasper coffin...
Black Irish. Though the government originally defended itself against charges of color bias by announcing that the curb would apply equally to Irish citizens, even this pretense was dropped last week with the lame explanation that the right to restrict Irish immigration would be used only if "absolutely necessary.'' The government's aim is to keep out what one critic of the bill called ''black Irish" immigrants: West Indians who try to enter the country via Ireland. Defending the bill, Home Secretary "Rab" Butler stumbled through an inept speech...
While his father-in-law, William E. Stevenson, 61, a longtime president of Oberlin College, was slated for the prestigious, $27,500-a-year ambassadorship to the Philippines, New Jersey's lame-duck Democratic Governor Robert Meyner, 53, was headed for New Frontier oblivion. Unsummoned to Washington despite the attempts of top New Jersey Democrats to land him a job with the Administration, the former Phillipsburg lawyer-who took a fatal hesitation step before jumping on the 1960 Kennedy bandwagon-announced that he would be returning to private practice. As Meyner himself once confided, "The Irish Mafia doesn...
Although DeGuglielmo cited the Finance Act, according to whose lame duck provision the Council cannot create city city officers during an election or end-of-the-year period, the Sullivan-Vellucci order passed...