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A Senator booted out of office by the fickle electorate usually vanishes from the public eye like a golf ball driven into the rough. But the brassie of public displeasure had a different effect on Illinois' Scott Lucas, the former Democratic floor leader, and Pennsylvania's Francis Myers...
Panamanian registry of merchant ships is a handy thing for shippers and seamen who want to make big money breaking embargoes-or trading with the enemy. In 1925, Panama passed a law permitting foreign shipowners to switch their ships to Panamanian nationality by registering at any Panama consulate for a...
For Limón himself, there was a toothsome part as the benign god Quetzalcoatl. He grapples in conflict throughout the four cycles of creation and destruction with the malignant god Tezcatlipoca (Lucas Hoving). In the end, Quetzalcoatl triumphs and the earth is saved.
As his investigations progressed, many criticized his tendency to bugle off on any side trail in search of a headline, and his scattergun methods which seemed to flush many birds but drop few of them. Some, like Texas' Tom] Connally, dismissed the whole project as "chasing crap-shooters." And...
*The first went to Naval Lieut. Charles Lucas in 1856 for pitching overboard a live shell during the Crimean War. Cast from the bronze of captured cannon, the V.C. entitles enlisted recipients who survive to a lifetime stipend of ?10 annually, a salute from officers.