Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sino-Soviet split is not necessarily in the best interests of the United States Melvin Croan '53, assistant professor of Government and research fellow in the Russian Research Center, said last night...
...G.O.P. has an example and an incentive to elaborate less rigid club rules and, indeed, to expand the club. To be sure, some Republicans are deeply offended by the way in which John Lindsay peeled off his party uniform before the battle. Among them was Nevada National Committeeman Melvin Lundberg, who growled, "If you tie a lemon on an orange tree, it's still not an orange." Yet the Democratic Party has never discouraged expedient hybridization-provided, at least, that oranges and lemons continue to hang from the same tree and wear the grower's label...
Died. Myron Melvin Cowen, 67, U.S. Ambassador to Australia (1948-49), the Philippines (1949-51) and Belgium (1952-53), whose greatest contribution came while adviser to Philippine President Elpidio Quirino, when he was instrumental in planning the suppression of the Communist-led Huk rebellion and starting the near-bankrupt islands on the road to solvency, offering up to $250 million in U.S. aid, conditional upon basic reforms; of a hemorrhage following brain surgery; in Washington...
...Louise Hicks, Boston has reminded the nation that democracy has two faces: "This-tonight-is a vote of confidence," Mrs. Hicks said Tuesday. "The people are speaking. Sometimes we hear just a vocal minority, but tonight, through the democratic process, we are hearing the majority." Next morning, defeated candidate Melvin King, a Negro, was telling reporters, "A little bit of democracy died in Boston yesterday...
...Ruby's case was taken over by San Francisco's Melvin Belli, a lawyer avid to make history, who demanded total acquittal on grounds of insanity. Like some 25 other states, say the authors, Texas requires the defense to prove that an allegedly insane defendant did not know right from wrong at the time of his crime. Undaunted, Belli insisted that Ruby shot Oswald as the result of an extremely rare epileptic seizure called a "psychomotor variant...