Word: mented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kill the 1966 Civil Rights Act, Dirksen rose in the Senate to introduce his so-called "Amen Amendment"-a measure designed to strike at two Supreme Court decisions by modifying the First Amendment so as to permit voluntary prayer in public schools. Few religious leaders favored the amend ment, but that hardly daunted the minority leader. Who did support his cause? "Not the professionals in the church hierarchy," declared Dirksen. "Not the cocktail-party, luncheon-circuit bunch. I'm talking about the church members-the rank and file-and they're in favor...
...families are moving into town, and the old-fashioned threshing gangs have given way to the farmer who sits in the air-conditioned cab of a $ 15,000 combine; he can now harvest a 1,000-acre crop with the help of a single hired hand. The farm-equip ment industry is, not surprisingly, in clover. Near Kamsack, Sask., Farmer Paul Strilaiff farms the homestead where his Russian immigrant parents settled at the turn of the century. He has done so well sending wheat back to Russia that last fall he walked into the office of a Kamsack implement dealer...
...carrier, with 14,119 miles of route and 10% of the business, was a one-man show for 41 years. The man was Collett Everman Woolman. Old-fash ioned where finances were involved, "C. E." was progressive about his equip ment. Nothing pleased him so much as the fact that the airline he founded was the first to fly the Convair 880, the DC-8, and last year the DC-9. Delta was also scheduled to be first with the Lockheed L-100, a civilian model of the Air Force Hercules cargo plane. But when the occasion came last week...
...Woman!" By the time she returned to stand trial a year later, she had begun to attract public support. Besides, the first issue of Woman Rebel had only promised the illegal stories; it had not delivered them. The Govern ment withdrew its indictment...
...Children's Memorial Hospital in Quezon City (a Manila suburb), with an institute of maternal and child health recently added, and has gone deep into debt to pay the running costs. Dr. del Mundo accepts donations and whatever fees patients can pay, but no govern ment money. Now she has a new volunteer fund raiser - Albert Holland...