Word: packs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even before the magazine reached the newsstands, Alioto blasted the charges as "a pack of lies" and distributed a 69-page "Analysis of Each and Every allegation in the Look article," denying any wrongdoing...
...drafted into the Army during the Korean War, court-martialed twice for minor offenses (once for refusing to put on his field pack). He spent eight months at the front and won the Bronze Star. In 1955, after a stint as a New York cab driver, and now with a degree in business administration from the College of the City of New York, he went to work in Southern California as a statistician for the Southern Pacific Company...
Enemy of Rascals. Unlike many other columnists, Pearson was not ideologically predictable. He was a New Deal liberal, but he attacked F.D.R. for trying to pack the Supreme Court as enthusiastically as he later crusaded against Senator Joseph McCarthy. Over the years, disclosures in Pearson's column sent four Congressmen to jail and led to the resignation of officials from Sherman Adams on down. He accused General MacArthur of lobbying for his own promotion (MacArthur sued and lost) and was the first to report the General George S. Patton slapping incident...
...Manhattan must negotiate some of the world's most hazardous waters. Temperatures in the Arctic drop as low as 75° below zero. Howling winds and raging seas build up pressure ridges of ice that tower 30 ft. above the surface and reach 100 ft. below. Grinding pack ice can lock an ordinary ship into a frigid vise for months or crush its hull like a beer...
Edgartown Police Chief Dominick Arena was back at his pre-Chappaquiddick chore of directing traffic. The sum mer residents of Martha's Vineyard were savoring the final days before they would pack their station wagons on Labor Day and head for the ferry at Vine yard Haven for their ride back to the mainland. But the Vineyard summer crowd will no sooner be gone than scores of reporters and camera crews will pour into Edgartown for the Sept. 3 inquest into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne in Poucha Pond...