Word: reede
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Everett Dirksen, 72, in Walter Reed Hospital with severe bruises after he fell from his dining room table while attempting to replace a light bulb; Patrick Lyndon Nugent, nine months, running a fever of 104°, high enough to bring a doctor to the White House; Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, 60, reportedly ill with pneumonia, though rumors buzz in Karachi that he has suffered a stroke; Alabama Governor Lurleen Wallace, 41, in St. Margaret's Hospital in Montgomery after an operation for an abdominal infection, having already undergone surgery for cancer three times in the past...
...Court. Only one other justice in recent times has gone directly to the court from the Solicitor General's slot, and he had the same problem Marshall has had. "I disqualified myself in any case with which I had dealt as Solicitor General," says retired Justice Stanley Forman Reed, "and Justice Marshall's action is perfectly in keeping with practice." But because the case load is now larger than ever before, Marshall has most likely set a court record. His total so far is 40 disqualifications out of the 54 cases decided after argument...
...century scientism, an emotionally neutral, self-perpetuating system of techniques that can be used for good or evil. Drawn into The Firm's cushy embrace is Inventor Felix Charlock, who sees himself as a "thinking weed," a pun on Pascal's definition of man as a "thinking reed." The Firm wants Charlock for his new recording device, which leads to the development of the ultimate computer, Abel. This electronic memory bank is capable of deducing an individual's past and future...
Jack Turco, Fritz Reed, and Paul Saba are the leading candidates at the moment, but every day it looks more as though Cobb will be returned to his old spot, leaving a wide open battle for third base...
Card Carrier. As the Depression deepened, so did Wright's belief that radical politics held the only promise for social and racial justice. In 1932, he joined the Chicago John Reed Club and, says Miss Webb, "committed himself wholeheartedly-morally, intellectually and artistically-in the fullest gesture of his life." Miss Webb is hesitant to say outright that Wright was cynically used by the American Communist Party to rally Negro support. Yet she makes it quite clear that, although Wright carried a party card, he was too preoccupied with his problems as an artist and his own writing career...