Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visitor flew in with a flourish. His pink face and silver hair gleamed above polished cowboy boots and a grand, fur-collared overcoat. San Francisco Lawyer Melvin Mouron Belli had come to Dallas to defend Jack Ruby, the only man ever to commit a murder while the whole nation watched. Now, whether or not Judge Joe Brantley Brown decides to let live TV turn the trial into a flamboyant show, a flamboyant courtroom drama is already a certainty. "We will plead him not guilty by reason of insanity," announced Belli after a two-hour interview with his newest client...
...four editions: one each for the Pacific Northwest, the Central Pacific states, the Pacific Southwest and, beginning with the current issue, a fourth directed at desert dwellers. But for all its expansion, Sunset has not really changed. Proprietor Lane, now 73, has given way to his two sons. Melvin, 41, is a vice-president. As publisher, Son Bill, 43, not only looks like his father but runs Sunset just...
...they facilitated transfer arrangements somewhat. Only one member of the Committee, Arthur land, was even willing to admit the existence of de facto segregation. He finished a ragged fifth in the primary election last month and is in danger of losing on the Committee. Of the other candidates, only Melvin King, a South End social worker, supports the NAACP's proposals; he finished seventh as he did two years ago, but with nine thousand fewer votes...
...many white Bostonians and have made opposition to the NAACP electorally profitable for School Committee candidates, those tactics do not detract from the inherent injustice of de facto segregation. The first step toward ending the in the Boston schools would be the of Arthur Gartland and the election of Melvin King to the School Committee at the general election...
Leslie Silverman, professor of Engineering in Environmental Hygiene, and Melvin W. First, associate professor of Applied Industrial Hygiene, have asked Washington for $350,000 to put their ideas into practice. They expect the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency to grant the funds before January, and a pilot incinerator vessel to be in operation...