Word: lonelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during nearly 20 years on the Hill is having once thrown a punch at Harlem's Representative Adam Clayton Powell (too soft to inflict permanent damage). Bailey is engaged in a desperate fight in a newly created district against popular Arch Alfred Moore, 39, the state's lone Republican in Congress. Few people thought that Kennedy's speech would affect the outcome. But there was little doubt about one thing: if West Virginians had it all to do over again, they would send Jack Kennedy on his way to the White House...
...Nose to Nose." Vermont Republican Winston L. Prouty. who cast the lone Senate vote against the resolution, charged that it "does not even face up to the Cuban problem. It reminds me of the resolve from King Lear that goes...
Died. Francis H. (Fran) Striker, 59, author of the saga of the masked rider of the plains. The Lone Ranger, by far the most enduring of all western radio heroes; in a head-on automobile collision near his home in Arcade. N.Y. Striker first conceived of the straight-shooting lawman in 1930, and the first episode was broadcast by Detroit radio station WXYZ in 1933. Until the program went off radio nine years ago (it is now a regular television feature). Striker, who sold the rights to Lone Ranger, continued to write the scripts. He turned out some...
...other companies may be able to pick up the pieces of his empire at bargain prices. "My creditors," cried Schlieker, "stiff-armed me and let me starve." In his rise to the top, Schlieker had done little to endear himself to bankers or fellow industrialists. He operated as a lone wolf, got rich by successively working for the Nazis as a steel expert, selling millions of dollars worth of steel to Communist East Germany, and swapping German steel for U.S. coal during the Korean war. Old-line German businessmen regarded him as "nicht salonfdhig"-not acceptable in drawing room society...
Their five children have grown up and left their Connecticut home. Now the shy, long-seclusive Lone Eagle, Charles A. Lindbergh, 60, and his authoress wife Anne Morrow, 56, are building an aerie high on the vineyard-studded slopes of Corsier above Switzerland's Lake Geneva; just below is the villa of Charlie Chaplin, who also enjoys the secluded life. But it will be a year before the two are neighbors. All that is completed on the one-acre plot commanding a view that will please his aviator's eye is the wall that Lindy wants around...