Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grant Cantacuzene had awakened in her Washington apartment and suddenly seen the canopy on her bed, her chest of drawers, the pictures on the wall and the sunlight through the window-for the first time in ten years. The granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant and former wife of the late Russian Prince Michael Can tacuzene, the princess had somewhat mysteriously regained, at least partially, the sight she lost after an automobile accident. Her doctor offered no explanation, but asked her: "Do you believe in miracles?" "Indeed I do," said the princess. She spent her birthday arranging the great bouquets...
...rupture in the cold, spilling electrolyte over other delicate parts and effectively disabling the craft. Actually, they now point out, similar test batteries have survived temperatures of -270° F., and have later been thawed out and recharged. When the sun again rises on the Sea of Storms late in June, they now suggest, it may find Surveyor ready to charge up and come back to life...
Supposed Properties. Houston Endowment Inc. is a $400 million nonprofit foundation set up by the late Jesse Jones, onetime U.S. Commerce Secretary and owner of the Chronicle. Recently, the trustees of the foundation, notably President J. Howard Creekmore, became anxious to convert the paper and other Endowment holdings into cash; last December they happily accepted an offer of $85 million from Mecom. In return, Mecom was to get the Chronicle, the well-located Chronicle Building and Rice Hotel, and a 30% controlling interest in the Texas National Bank of Commerce, second largest in town. Mecom...
When police finally obliged, continued Clark, "the case came on for trial two weeks before the November election, at which time the chief prosecutor was a candidate for municipal judge and the presiding judge [the late Edward Blythin] was a candidate to succeed himself." Judge Blythin, who won in a landslide, was undisturbed when Cleveland papers published the addresses of all 75 veniremen, who were thus deluged with letters and phone calls. Eleven jurors had read about the case before being selected; seven continued to receive Cleveland papers. All twelve were pictured more than 40 times in those papers, which...
...mark of Cain is on the century. More than 100 million people in the last six decades have been killed in military action alone, and the hairy thumb of violence has not lost its itch. Can man learn, before it is too late, to control the Cain in his constitution? Only if he understands the brute, says Austria's celebrated Naturalist Konrad Lorenz (King Solomon's Ring, Man Meets Dog). But the brute, he hastens to add, cannot finally be understood in psychiatric terms because man is too small a measure for such things. Aggression...