Word: rafted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fingering a 105-year-old rosary that "once belonged to my grandmother," the defendant wept while his lawyer summed up before U.S. District Judge Peirson Hall in Los Angeles. "Oh, thank you, your honor!" cried old Movie Mobster George Raft, 70, as the judge fined him a mere $2,500 on one count of filing a false income tax return but dismissed five other charges amounting to $50,000 in back taxes-and a possible $25,000 in fines and 15 years in prison. "I told you not to thank the judge," said Judge Hall. So George proceeded to thank...
...Larry O'Brien, John Kennedy's most artful campaign manager and Capitol Hill strategist, who has since shouldered the bigger burden of pushing Johnson's mighty legislative raft through Congress...
Meanwhile, under pressure from a starving economy and Castro's brutal security forces, the ragtag exodus of Cubans from their homeland continues. Last week a yachtsman off Miami rescued onetime Camagüey Province Governor Luis Casas Martinez, 36, from a raft on which he had drifted alone for twelve days after escaping from a Castro prison. Casas Martinez, whose sister fled to Florida in 1964, had once been a Castro official, but he fell into disfavor. An X tattooed over his heart marked him for death for plotting against Castro. He was the latest of more than...
...take part in the debate. Others strolled in occasionally from the cloakrooms to interrupt the proceedings with speeches about dam projects in their home states. In the presiding officer's chair, New York Democrat Robert F. Kennedy leafed idly through a sheaf of clippings about his recent raft trip down the Yampa and Green rivers in Colorado and Utah. After four days of desultory debate, it was all over. Medicare, once the most controversial domestic issue in the U.S., breezed through the Senate like nothing worse than a mild cold. The final vote...
...campaign that has seen him smash seven European and world records, including the mile (TIME, June 18), Jazy took this occasion to show that he could run against topflight competition as well as against the clock in carefully staged set-piece races. Ranged against him at Helsinki was a raft of world stars, among them Australia's Ron Clarke and U.S. Olympic Winner Bob Schul; Jazy beat them all, turning on his sprint in the final 200 yds. to win by 5 yds. and come within 1.8 sec. of Clarke's four-week old world record...