Word: paired
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Persons & Commodities. In the Georgia slaying, Penn, a Negro who directed vocational schools in the District of Columbia, was gunned down while driving to Washington after a two-week Army Reserve stint at Fort Benning, Ga. A pair of admitted Klansmen, Joseph H. Sims and Cecil W. Myers, were charged with the killing and acquitted of murder in a state court. Federal attorneys subsequently accused them of violating Section 241, but, like Mississippi's Cox, Federal District Judge W. A. Bootle of Macon dismissed the charges...
...prove? Nothing, aside from the fact that Clay can take it as well as dish it out. Some critics sneered that he was a powder-puff puncher; others insisted that Cassius deliberately had "carried" Chuvalo, could have knocked him out any time he wanted. Clay replied by exhibiting a pair of swollen hands that looked almost as bad as Chuvalo's face: "George's head," he moaned, "is the hardest thing I've ever punched...
...house's eight ceramic water fountains ($500 each) have been snapped up, as have the 280 chairs ($15 each) in the boxes. Says House Manager Alfred Hubay: "Old subscribers have been complaining about those chairs for years-now they want to buy them!" Among other items sold: 15 pairs of Caruso's flesh-colored stockings (at $15 per pair), dressing-room doors ($10), brass spittoons ($25), wall sconces ($15 to $75), chandeliers ($500), columns, banisters, hat trees, and several hundred planks from the stage floor...
...worked out his novel theory after compiling an atlas of the "peculiar galaxies" that appear to have been distorted by cataclysmic explosions. Many of these distorted galaxies, he noted, were located at just about the midpoint of a line joining a pair of nearby radio sources. Most of these sources are radio galaxies, but eight have been identified as quasars. Furthermore, filaments of matter from several of the peculiar central galaxies appear to extend out in the direction of the radio sources...
...Director Karel Reisz (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) quells resistance by assigning the mad-capital antics to two gifted young British actors, David Warner (London's hottest new Hamlet) and Vanessa Redgrave (daughter of Sir Michael). Playing their first important film roles, both manage to make a pair of tricky characters seem hilarious and poignant...