Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vincent G. Panati produced a classic capsule example of how much personal prosperity can be skimmed off state highway construction, the nation's booming, graft-prone major public-works project. Witnesses testified that two top members of the Republican-run Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission had teamed up with Manu-Mine Research & Development Co. (initial capitalization: $4,300) in a plan to defraud the commission of turnpike construction funds. With then-Turnpike Commission Chairman Thomas J. Evans' nephew, Charles Stickler, as president, Manu-Mine had cozily acted as the commission's consultant, contractor (without competitive bidding) and official inspector...
Last week, after 42 days' trial, the boodlers got billed. Boss Boodler Evans, 73, and his fellow commissioner, former G.O.P. State Chairman James Torrance, were found guilty of misconduct in office and conspiracy (probable prison sentence: two years). Manu-Mine President Stickler and his No. 2 man face five-year prison terms, $5,000 fines...
...three-block line of mourners filed past. President Eisenhower, who received Castillo Armas in the hospital in Denver and renewed the acquaintance while visiting Panama, called the death "a great loss to his own nation and to the entire free world. President Castillo Armas was a personal friend of mine." Ike announced that Major John Eisenhower will represent him at the funeral this week...
...Lausanne, Switzerland, where the Pretender and his son are vacationing. Don Juan snapped: "When the monarchy is restored, the succession will naturally be mine. There will never be any question of my stepping aside in favor of my son.'' Said Prince Juan Carlos: "As far as I am concerned, my father is the King...
...Novelist Ooka leaves him, trying to figure out who or what he is. It seems unlikely that he will, though there are times when he thinks he might be an angel. "But if I am an angel of God, why am I so grieved? Why is this heart of mine, which should now be free of all earthly attachments, so full of uneasiness and fear? I must make no mistake...