Word: sams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Natural Resources. "If just once," observed Florida Democrat Sam Gibbons afterward, "Adam had come in and said, I made a mistake,' things might have turned out differently." But throughout, Powell was being-Powell. While the House wrangled over his fate, he spent the afternoon playing dominoes in Bimini's End of the World bar, sipping "cowbells" (milk laced with Scotch) supplied by reporters. "If I'm excluded," he said philosophically, "I'll be happy all the time. If I'm not excluded, I'll be happy all the time...
...Michael Schwerner, 24, and James Chancy, 21, who were shot dead near Philadelphia, Miss., in 1964. In a separate indictment, the grand jury charged twelve men with conspiring to "intimidate, threaten, and coerce" Hattiesburg Farmer Vernon Dahmer, who died when his home was fire-bombed last year. One man, Sam H. Bowers Jr., 42, Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was named in both indictments. With the exception of Bowers, none of the men could be sentenced to more than ten years in jail...
...NAVAL BOMBARDMENT. Until last week the U.S. Seventh Fleet, patrolling the Gulf of Tonkin, was authorized to fire only on shore batteries that fired first on them or on radar stations tracking U.S. ships for targeting purposes. Other coastal targets-roads, trucks, trains, SAM missile sites-have been taken care of by the fleet's fighter-bombers, whose activity is drastically curtailed during the monsoon month of March. Last week Navy guns attacked those North Vietnamese targets as well. The guided-missile destroyer U.S.S. Joseph Strauss opened up with 5-in. guns that lob 54-lb. shells from...
Usually when Publisher Sam Newhouse takes over a newspaper he is resented as an outsider and a lot of local feeling builds up against him. In Cleveland last week just the opposite happened. Announcing the purchase of the 125-year-old Plain Dealer by Newhouse, Publisher Tom Vail, 40, added that he could not be happier. "What we have now is a newspaperman committed to our programs. His first interest is the paper and its future...
Addressing an overflow crowd at Leverett House, Bailey--the attorney who defended Albert DeSalvo, Dr. Sam Shepard, Dr. Carl Coppolino -- described some of the problems inherent in the present system of criminal law, and in the present training of criminal lawyers...