Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...botched his job is entitled to a new trial (1963), to ring new safeguards around the use of co-defendant confessions at joint trials (1965), and to defy the odd Supreme Court rule that police may not seize "mere" evidence, such as incriminating letters, unless it is also the loot or tools of a crime, or the means of escape...
Tweaking the tail of a tiger is chancy sport, as the American Football League discovered last week. The A.F.L. had been feeling pretty big: this year's attendance was 23% higher than 1964's, that lovely TV loot was rolling in at the rate of $7,200,000 a year, and the caliber of play around the league had improved to the point where sportswriters were calling for a "World Series" between the A.F.L. and the older (by 40 years) National Football League. After five years of trying to forget that the A.F.L. even existed, the N.F.L. finally...
...papers' translators leads to frequent apologies in print. Recently the Daily News ran a correction: "In yesterday's issue, due to a printing error in the item on the Philippines, 'U.S. to Pay $6 Million Cost' was printed 'U.S. to Pay $6 Million Loot'; and on the same page in the item on Billy Graham, 'Asks Audience to Give L.B.J. Standing Ovation' was printed 'Asks Audience to Give L.B.J. Standing Nation.' We sincerely regret these misspellings and ask our readers to accept our sincere apologies...
...Broadway musical Bajour, Chita Rivera, 35, plays a crafty gypsy con-girl dedicated to the gentle art of separating suckers from their cash. And who should be picked to lure loot-laden tourists to the New York World's Fair when it opens next week? Of course. Naming the hot-eyed Latin actress New York City's official summer hostess, Mayor Robert Wagner, 55, cooed: "Chita Rivera symbolizes in a wonderful way the warm welcome we want to extend to each of our guests." Fair warning...
...Army captain, he received the Legion d'Honneur for his detective work in uncovering cached Nazi art loot...