Word: san
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assassination, public revulsion gave Congress its cue. Maryland's Democratic Senator Joseph Tydings, the sponsor of a tough bill that would require licenses for the purchase and possession of firearms and ammunition, and registration of the weapons, was deluged with 10,000 letters supporting his stand. San Francisco as well as neighboring Marin County passed a registration ordinance. In Chicago, a voluntary turn-in campaign has prompted the surrender of 75 guns a day. Florida's Jordan Marsh and Burdine's chains quit selling toy guns, while Sears, Roebuck, the world's largest retailer, stopped advertising...
...minibombs are timed to flare after closing hour. In one day, four fires did $810,000 worth of damage to stores owned by U.S. merchants; unexploded devices have been found in the bathroom of a girls' school and, two weeks ago, at a U.S. Selective Service office in San Juan. In April, a bomb was uncovered in a San Juan hotel and was defused; bombs have damaged two other hotels...
...Right of Violence. Police and FBI agents have failed to uncover any solid evidence. The tiny, 3,000-member Puerto Rican Pro-Independence Movement, a legal party led by San Juan Attorney Juan Mari Bras, 40, denies responsibility. "I can't conceive of any independence people carrying out such a campaign," says Bras. "But we don't deny the right of violence...
...Miss Teen-age America Pageant or ABC's Miss Teen International Pageant. This season, with ten girlie galas scheduled by the networks and dozens more by local stations, the College Queen Pageant might possibly be remembered for two slight distinctions. First, the new queen, Valerie Dickerson, 21, from San Jose State College in California, was the only Negro among the 50 contestants. Second, the show is sponsored by the Best Foods Division of Corn Products Inc., which is stunningly appropriate...
Died. Lino Zanussi, 48, pioneer producer of Italy's modern home appliances; of injuries suffered in a plane crash; near San Sebastián, Spain. A high school dropout who took over his father's small stove business in 1946, Zanussi began expanding into other consumer lines, perceived the tastes and sales rhythm of Italians keenly enough to anticipate the postwar surge. Today, everything from refrigerators to TV sets emerges from the family-owned Industrie A. Zanussi, with an annual sales total of more than $100 million...