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...then Vice President for agreeing to appear at a daylong round of testimonials "to assist me in my forthcoming campaign." Dodd insisted that he had profited "not one penny from public office," had bought no yachts or Cadillacs with the testimonial funds. But Stennis reminded the Senate that the "morass of money" financed "repairs to a house, alterations to a private home, payments of thousands of dollars to a son," among other nonpolitical causes...
...state of Israel is an island of Western culture, freedom and law in a morass of premedieval hate. The land "carved from the land of the Arabs" was, under Arab rule, a desert; it is now a rose garden in a wasteland of thorns. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, and the only nation in that area openly siding with the U.S. in the international power struggle...
...about $44,000 in back taxes. To complicate matters even further, Ruby made out three separate wills, dividing his non-estate (mostly personal effects) among sisters, nephews and a friendly prison guard. Last week, as lawyers in Dallas and Detroit-where his brother Earl lives-waded through the financial morass, it appeared that the strip-joint owner's most valuable possession was the snub-nosed .38 Colt Cobra revolver with which he killed Oswald. Collectors have reportedly offered as much...
...Long." Ironically enough, it took a member of one of Genoa's most conservative old-line families, Shipping Magnate Giacomo Costa, 61, to make the first move to clean up the city's mercantile morass. For Genoa, Costa's scheme was downright startling. Concluding that the only long-term solution to the city's port problem was to look for space elsewhere, he got the backing of 170 leading Genoese businessmen, built a new landlocked "port" on the other side of the Apennines, 40 miles inland at Rivalta Scrivia. Linked...
...compass lie Japan's six largest cities and an urban-industrial complex that produces 67% of its manufactured goods-along with most of the problems of identity and adaptation found in today's Japanese society. Under the chill gaze of sacred Mount Fuji, a man-made morass of concrete, steel and glass belches smoke and grime in a manner quite contradictory to the verses of the 8th century poet Akahito Yamabe, who wrote...