Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uncommitted" members among whom the Administration must scratch and claw to put together a winning margin. In 1962, collecting those uncommitted votes will be even more difficult than last year, since nearly all Congressmen report that during their adjournment-period visits back home they found great popular sup port for President Kennedy but little enthusiasm for his domestic programs...
...wake of a sweeping investigation by the Texas legislature, crap games and horse parlors were closed down. The madams and their girls had checked out of their "hotels" and departed for brighter lights. And 43 people were under indictment on vice charges, including several top officials of Beaumont, neighboring Port Arthur and surrounding Jefferson County...
Little White Envelopes. During three days of televised hearings before the legislative committee, Jefferson County Sheriff Charles Meyer admitted "campaign contributions" of $85,581 over a five-year period; he campaigned only once in the five years and was unopposed. The contributions, he said, came in little white envelopes. Port Arthur Police Chief Garland B. Douglas got "campaign contributions" of $65,000; his was an appointive office. On a monthly salary of $735, Beaumont's Chief of Police J. H. Mulligan had tucked away $40,000 in the bank and owned property worth...
...down from Lisbon to take charge, but as he approached the barracks on foot he was shot dead, probably by one of his own trigger-happy men. Two insurgents were killed at Beja and 13 captured, including the badly wounded Varela Gomes. Five more were seized at a fishing port, where they had hoped to escape...
...using its regulatory powers to coerce airlines into using the new Dulles International Airport, which the FAA runs, instead of Friendship International, operated by the Port of Baltimore Authority. The airlines, absolutely dependent on the Agency's scheduling and fare decisions, can scarcely resist the pressure to shift their service...