Word: malcolms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Malcolm Paul Cantrell. 65, Tennessee banker and heavy-handed politician whose powerful Democratic machine allied itself with Memphis' Boss Crump, ruled the roost in southeastern Tennessee's McMinn and Polk counties for a decade until returning World War II veterans formed the G.I. Non-Partisan League to fight him, used Tommy guns and dynamite on election day, Aug.1,1946, to rescue ballot boxes from the county jail where Cantrell's henchmen had hidden them; of cancer; in Athens, Tenn...
School of Business. Even higher tribute comes from Malcolm McNair, professor of retailing at the Harvard Business School, who rates Ferkauf as one of the six greatest merchants in U.S. history...
...Angeles meeting of the Black Muslim organization (TIME, Aug. 10, 1959) on the day of the crash, Leader "Malcolm X" cried: "I would like to announce a very beautiful thing that has happened . . . I got a wire from God today [laughter]. Wait, all right, well somebody came and told me that he really had answered our prayers over in France. He dropped an airplane out of the sky with over 120 white people on it because the Muslims believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But thanks to God, or Jehovah or Allah...
...held its breath when Alan Shepard led the way into space. It suffered anxiety as Gus Grissom swam for his life in the Atlantic. It thrilled to the historic adventure of John Glenn. Now, as Astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter, 37, a wiry, laconic Navy lieutenant commander, hurtled three times around the earth, there was interest, but little of the intense excitement that had focused on previous flights. The nation seemed to be getting sophisticated about space travel-until, at the end, a harrowing, wildly suspenseful 57 minutes showed just how thin the veneer of sophistication...
...dedication to their mission. But in other ways they are as separate as the seven stars of the Big Dipper. Malcolm Scott Carpenter may well be the least skilled pilot among them. But he makes up for that with will power and a compelling personality. He is probably the most popular of the astronauts...