Word: melvin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...third key conventioneer-Platform Chairman Melvin Laird, 41, a Congressman from Wisconsin-is balding and a bit on the pudgy side. But that makes little difference; his role will be performed mostly off-camera...
...plan was conceived by Leslie Silverman, professor of Engineering in Environmental Hygiene, and Melvin W. First, associate professor of Applied Industrial Hygiene, both of the School of Public Health...
...Moreno had asked Dallas Judge Joe B. Brown to let Ruby out to play himself on the psychodrama stage. Predictably, Judge Brown refused. Moreno also had asked former Defense Counsel Melvin Belli to re-enact his own part. Belli accepted, then failed to show. But every role had volunteers, and though members of the audience who sat as a mock jury took no vote, their consensus was plain: if the Dallas jury box had been packed with psychiatrists, Ruby would have been found "insane...
...MELVIN H. BAKER personally sold $1,000,000 worth of stock to set up National Gypsum Co. 39 years ago in a ramshackle Buffalo building. At 78, Baker is still going strong-and so is Gypsum, whose $250 million sales in 1963 make it a giant in the building-products industry. Baker can be harshly protective toward his creation: he once abolished a whole department for socializing on the job. But the Tennessee-born onetime beaverboard salesman softens over children, spends Sundays entertaining his six grandchildren at his Buffalo penthouse. He also has solid business reasons for liking kids: more...
...Brown, who presided at Ruby's trial, flatly rejected defense attorneys' request for a new trial based on their claim of 203 errors in Brown's handling of the proceedings. The defense, now led by Texas University Law Professor Hubert W. Smith, who replaced bellowing Melvin Belli, said it would submit a motion for a new trial to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals within six months...