Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soft to turn down, and eventually a $172,000 bill in taxes and interest from the Internal Revenue Service, which he never could pay. After ten years of litigation, IRS settled for $25,000, which was paid in a fund drive directed by the late House Speaker Sam Rayburn...
...improved schools in Negro neighborhoods. A biracial committee quietly formed in Cleveland has won a six-month moratorium on demonstrations for that city's new school superintendent, to give him "time to implement his program." In Los Angeles, an energetic new urban-affairs director named Sam Hammerman has brought about a close understanding between civil rights groups and the school board...
White Sox three out of four last month, clouting eight hits (including two homers) and driving in six runs. They have Pitcher Steve Barber, who can't lick anybody else but has won three apiece from the White Sox and Yankees. They have Rookie Outfielder Sam Bowens, who hits one home run for every four times he strikes out (19 HRs, 84 Ks), and Shortstop Luis Aparicio, who leads both leagues with 50 stolen bases, and Milt Pappas (né Miltiades Stergios Papastedgios), who might be the best pitcher around if he weren't bored by the ease...
...afternoon Lyndon jetted once more to Atlantic City, motored to the white stucco ocean-front villa that he and his family had taken over for the week from Hess Rosenbloom, brother of the owner of the Baltimore Colts. He entered Convention Hall after the eulogies of John F. Kennedy, Sam Rayburn and Eleanor Roosevelt had ended. As he sat down in the presidential box overlooking the speaker's rostrum, Lyndon was the absolute monarch of the place, and he looked it-hands on his knees, elbows akimbo, face impassive...
...embarrassing. We will feel more at ease when the Democrats also denounce us again, as they did for so many years. We cherish our memories of the days when the Democrats railed at us as a 'one-party press.' The late great political reporter Sam Blythe set a stern standard for men in our trade. Said Sam: The only way for a journalist to look at a politician is down...