Word: roger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times in the head, reportedly by a man who lives in Murray's housing project. Police charged unemployed Factory Hand Clarence C. Underwood with the killing and said he dropped a gun when accosted and cried: "Shoot me-Martin Luther King is dead!" In the Virgin Islands, Contractor Roger D. McKibbin Jr. was knifed to death at a drive-in ice-cream store while his three young children watched. Police arrested Michael Raymond Crowe, 29, a former mental patient from New York who was said to have vowed to kill the first white...
Genuine Concern. Everything was falling into place-with the exception of the primaries. California and Oregon look like easy wins, but Indiana on May 7 looks tough. Bobby professes little concern about McCarthy, but appears genuinely perturbed by Governor Roger Branigin, who is running as a favorite son. A popular Governor with more than usual patronage powers to spur the enthusiasm of party workers, Branigin originally was a stand-in for Lyndon Johnson. He and McCarthy together have a very good chance of winning enough votes to outpoll Bobby...
...first primary is May 7, in Indiana, a conservative state whose rural lower half is as southern as Mississippi. Roger D. Branigin, the most popular governor in the state's history, controls the amazingly powerful party organization. The leading paper in the state, the Indianapolis Star, buries news of Kennedy and McCarthy deep in stories headlining Branigin's latest support from county leaders. Branigin entered the primary as a stand-in for Johnson, and polls showed him leading Kennedy and McCarthy. After Johnson's withdrawal, he decided to stay in the contest, probably to hold his state for Humphrey...
American composer Roger Sessions is to be the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard next year. At Radcliffe, Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Baxter will succeed the Honorable Maureen Neuberger as head of South House...
...Louis Cardinals will win the National League pennant again this year for several reasons: Bob Gibson, Orlando Cepeda, Lou Brock, Curt Flood, Tim McCarver, Roger Maris and Julian Javier...