Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Melvin Jones. 82, hearty, back-slapping founder of Lions International and its longtime secretary-general, who helped make the Lions the world's largest service-club association with 625,539 members in 112 nations united under the motto "We Serve" and the theme song Roar, Lion, Roar; after a series of strokes; in Flossmoor...
...station's timing could not have been better-or worse-in airing the show. The verdict had been handed down on Feb. 23, but the television version of their deliberations was beamed the day before Melvin Davis Rees Jr., 32, a Hyattsville, Md., dance band musician, was to appear for sentencing for the crime that could bring him life imprisonment. Appearing before Judge Roszel C. Thomsen, Rees's lawyers argued that the telecast had portrayed the jurors as discussing issues not raised in the trial, including the question of Rees's sanity. "We do not know...
...drive back to the U.S. embassy. No one could say when their plane would be ready to leave, and every passing minute increased the possibility of a news leak. The two men were spirited into the ninth-floor apartment of the embassy's air attaché, Colonel Melvin J. Nielsen. Embassy electricians were ordered to do phony "maintenance" work on the front-entrance elevator to keep it temporarily out of commission and discourage visitors. It was twelve hours later before the men finally got off the ground and headed for Amsterdam. They had barely left before President Kennedy made...
Written, produced and directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, Facts of Life inquires with wicked glee into the nature of the tie that binds men and women in holy wedlock. Is it love? No, it is inertia; most married people remain faithful to each other because it is just too much trouble to cheat...
...time in 98 years, had marked some lines down 30%. Surprisingly enough, it was the best toys that often carried the biggest markdowns, e.g., Marx's sturdy, battery-powered go-kart, list-priced at $30 sells for as low as $15. Says the Toy Guidance Council's Melvin Freud: "The retail discounting has stretched the toy dollar 25%. Toys are the biggest bargain in the stores this Christmas...