Word: nesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thomas E. Dewey, others of Averell Harriman and Carmine De Sapio). He lavished affection and money on his frail wife Lillian. (Says she: "I was his queen.") His blue Cadillac bore the license plates "S.L.R." In 1959 Sam developed a heart ailment, complicated by diabetes. He sold his busi ness and moved to Phoenix. Some time in the next two years he began to plan his appointment in Samarra. He scanned the classified ads in the Phoenix papers looking for one "will-do-anything" kind of situation-wanted ad. At least five unemployed men were approached by Resnick...
...narrow-brim look in crime is disorganized, and therefore harder to spot than in the days of Eliot Ness-and much harder to control. Crime also has other disturbing new characteristics. Negroes make up 70% of the jail population in Chicago, where they are less than a fourth of the population, and have accounted for as much as 53% of all crimes of violence in Los Angeles, where their numbers are much smaller. But, though they make a hefty contribution, newcomers are far from the big city's only source of crime. Criminals naturally migrate to the big city...
Other officers blamed the defeat on political factions in France and on the slack ness of civil life. While they fought and died for the cause of antiCommunism, they felt they were being betrayed or ridiculed by Parisian intellectuals. They decided that all revolutions in Asia and Africa are essentially Communist, and that a hidden conspiracy lurks inside Western society which seeks to destroy it. Members of this conspiracy were by turns identified as liberals, Jews, left-wing Catholics, the newspapers, and (later) De Gaulle...
...Examiner and Norman Chandler's Mirror (TIME, Jan. 12)-died, leaving America's third largest city with only one morning paper and one in the afternoon. Last week a group headed by Marvin J. McConnell, who puts out a western twice-monthly trade paper (Small Busi ness News), announced plans to start an independent, five-day-a-week afternoon tabloid called the Post to challenge Hearst's consolidated Herald-Examiner...
There are exceptions. The Fox, illustrated by Peter Spier (Doubleday; $2.95), has delicate, colored pen drawings, and the text, an old song, is good enough to sing. Mary Britton Miller's Listen-the Birds, illustrated by Evaline Ness (Pantheon; $3), achieves unpatronizing verse. The poet knows enough about chickadees to know they actually say chicka-dee-dee-dee, but the child who hopes to see live birds like the ones illustrated will be sadly deceived. James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl (Knopf; $3.95), has illustrations in good old-fashioned pen and ink, though the subject matter...