Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dinis, a Democrat, replaced his late father, an immigrant Portuguese furniture maker, in the Massachusetts state legislature. Ten years ago he became the youngest district attorney ever elected in Massachusetts, but since then his ambition and oratory have failed to carry him to any higher office. Last year he lost a race for a seat in the House in part because Ted Kennedy refused to support him. Because of recent threats against his life, he now has a state trooper bodyguard...
Question of Significance. McCloskey was ready with a prepared statement. "There has been a considerable reduction in infiltration," he said, adding that the North was no longer sending as many men South as it had lost in battle. Many newsmen came away from the briefing with the conviction that Secretary of State William Rogers, who is committed to 'U.S. disengagement, had orchestrated McCloskey's performance in an effort to create a climate conducive to new U.S. withdrawals...
...Other Shoe. Gary Player, who has a reputation for being equally sure of himself, lost much of his aplomb at the P.G.A. He was the target of third-round harassment by an ad hoc civil rights group that felt the Dayton Chamber of Commerce might better have applied its energies to the city's ghetto problems than to sponsoring the P.G.A. tournament...
...with facts for intelligent protest. The group includes leading lawyers, chemists, geologists and physicists, including Edward U. Condon, former chief of the National Bureau of Standards. In recent months, it has uncovered Army nerve gas stored casually near Denver's airport and probed the whereabouts of radioactive plutonium lost in a fire at a Dow-operated nuclear plant near Boulder. But so far, nothing has worried the committee as much as Project Rulison...
When Skolnick was 34, his parents lost a lawsuit against a brokerage house that they had accused of frittering away a stock fund set up for their son. Skolnick, now 39, recalls: "I kept running into judges who seemed unfair, dishonest and politically motivated." He was so embittered that he set out to improve Illinois justice by investigating judges and reforming the system under which they are elected in the state. The son of an immigrant garment cutter from Russia, Skolnick dropped out of Roosevelt University, where he was an A student but required special transportation to the campus, which...