Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oswald, Speck was brought up largely by his mother (his father died when the boy was six). Born in Kirkwood, Ill., on Dec. 6, 1941, Speck, like Oswald, moved to Dallas as a small boy. Speck's mother, like Oswald's, remarried and clung grimly to the lower-middle-class fringe of poverty...
...highest altitude ever reached by man-well above the 354-mile record set by Russian Cosmonauts Aleksei Leonov and Pavel Belyayev during the 1965 flight of Voskhod II. In its lofty elliptical orbit, Gemini-Agena passed several times through the "South Atlantic Anomaly," an area where the lower portion of the Van Allen radiation belt dips to within a few hundred miles of the earth. Though the astronauts were exposed to radiation, it was only one-twentieth the strength that NASA scientists had expected and well within safe limits...
...court called this construction "a gratuitous unconstitutional reach" that might well encourage lower courts to penalize "matter produced solely for the personal enjoyment of the creator." Construing Ginzburg, the court stressed: "No constitutionally punishable conduct appears in the case of an individual who prepares material for his own use" or who "intends to purge the material of any objectionable element before distributing or exhibiting it." To hold otherwise, the court said, "would pose grave technical difficulty for the unconventional artist" and "tend to suppress experimental productions that might become, in finished form, constitutionally protected communication...
...press conference. "I didn't fight the British to exchange British imperialism for Eastern imperialism," Banda snapped. Then looking Telli straight in the eye, Banda shouted: "I mean that! I'm saying that because you are here. You can expel Malawi from the O.A.U." As Telli shrank lower and lower in his chair, Banda sneered at African countries that claim Socialist countries are their friends: "Tell that to the marines, not to Kamuzu...
...from Envelopes. A white-thatched bank veteran of 58 who came to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street directly from secondary school in Wands-worth, a lower middle-class section of London, O'Brien worked his way up in 39 years from clerk to chief cashier and deputy governor. Harold Wilson picked him to succeed Lord Cromer, who left at the end of his five-year term to resume his partnership in the famed banking house of Baring Brothers. The O'Brien appointment was calculated to offend neither the financial community of "the City," which would have resented...