Word: roach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rafael Trujillo, always willing to pay for favorable publicity. Last week a federal grand jury in Washington charged that Guterma, 44, collected $750,000 from Trujillo to disseminate "political propaganda" and failed to register as an agent of a foreign power. The grand jury also indicted as defendants Hal Roach Jr. and Garland L. Culpepper Jr.. former officers of Mutual Broadcasting...
...week's end Guterma flew into Washington for arraignment, was released on $5,000 bail, raising to $25,000 his bail on three other federal indictments. Said lanky, tanned Guterma: "I have never been an agent for any foreign government, and I have no intention of being one." Roach and Culpepper also denied the charge, but the Dominican Republic announced that it had filed suit in the U.S. District Court against Guterma and associates for fraudulent misrepresentation, seeks return of the $750,000 it says it paid...
...half a dozen U.S. medical and cybernetic research centers, scores of human computers are at work trying to bring the card-shuffling business machines and the electronic computer into more areas of medicine. At System,Development Corp. in Santa Monica, Calif., an eleven-man team under Engineer Charles J. Roach, 38, has figured after a half-year study that no fewer than six areas invite automation. Of greatest direct interest to the patient: taking and "retrieval" of case histories; diagnosis and treatment; automated control of a medical procedure, e.g., anesthesia during an operation...
...subway?" Duke Custis, a knife-scarred hard case at 14, knows well enough where the Atlantic is, even has a vague notion that Europe lies somewhere beyond Coney Island. But the boy's world is the three-or-four-street patch of roach-rich jungle ruled by his gang-the Royal Crocadiles, of whom Lu Ann is a one-girl ladies' auxiliary. The few streets beyond are prowled by a rival pack known as the Wolves; the rest of the planet is terra incognita. Duke is a big man in his neighborhood, where people are divided into...
...Schoendienst's TB spells doom for Milwaukee. Manager Fred Haney has no one to fill his place, especially now that Mel Roach has reinjured his knee. The middle of the infield now consists of rookie Chuck Cottier and either John Logan or Felix Mantilla (the only player in the majors to bat lower than Willy Miranda...