Word: robbed
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...laws." But maybe Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire put it better. Said he bitterly: "It certainly is not a Kennedy bill. No one could call it a Dillon bill. This is the bill of the distinguished Senator from Oklahoma, the very able uncrowned King of the Senate, Rob ert S. Kerr." Snarled Lines. Bob Kerr, second-ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee, took over the floor management of the bill after Chairman Harry Byrd. patriarch of Democratic conservatism, objected to the revenue loss involved in its 7% in come tax credit for industries that invest in new machinery...
Forgotten Interest. Reese was only 19 and only four months married when he killed his first man, a clerk in a liquor store he was trying to rob. Only six months before, he had been released from the reformatory after serving time for two earlier holdups. A month after his first murder, he killed a night clerk while robbing a hotel. After a fierce gun battle with St. Louis police, he was arrested, tried, convicted of both murders and sentenced to death. The prosecutor called him "the most cold-blooded murderer I've ever seen...
...received $450 million in U.S. aid). The U.S. decided to abandon Phoumi's anti-Communist regime, which appeared doomed, and planned to replace it with a neutralist government. But Phoumi strenuously opposed the idea; a neutralist coalition, he feared, would soon fall to all-out Red control-and rob him of his own power...
Under the leadership of Phillips Brooks House, the University opened most of its facilities to the kids. With their leaders, they laid siege to the Peabody Museum, the Fogg, the CRIMSON, the IAB pool, Lowell Lecture Hall for cartoons and Rob Roy, Weld Boat House for half-hour boat rides, "Skish-Target" shooting on the banks of the Charles, Widener, athletics at Soldiers Field, and food...
...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, board of sponsors includes J. Rob-openhelmer and Linus Pauling, will the talk in April. Commonweal, the idea's "rare combination of and hard practicality," hoped Szilard was "right in believing that movement will attract millions of Americans...