Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amazed when you see Whitingham Farms for yourself with its lovely common greenery offering complete off-road privacy and rusticity to each homesite. The community parks, beaches, recreational and shopping areas, and covered bridges are all designed for the epitome in private use and landscape protection...
Died. Seymour Weiss, 73, a grand vizier of Louisiana Kingfish Huey Long's political empire; of a heart attack; in Baton Rouge. A onetime New Orleans barbershop manager, Weiss was the man to see about practically everything once his friend Long became Governor in 1928; he ladled out patronage, determined how party funds would be spent -or misspent-and served as Long's most trusted adviser. So entrenched did Weiss become that he remained a power after Long's 1935 assassination-until 1940, when he was finally put behind bars for mail fraud...
Died. The Most. Rev. Bernard Sheil, 83, Roman Catholic crusader for social and civil rights (see RELIGION...
Toothbrush Holder. Truman Capote couldn't care less. He has carried a handbag for years. "I don't see how people get along without some sort of little satchel," he says. "Mine's really a medical bag," he explains. "When people ask me what's in it I say I'm a pusher." What does he carry in it, then? "I keep my money in it. And a book, in case I have to wait for someone. And the papers I'm working on. And four or five pairs of glasses. And a toothbrush...
...opposition from experts who believe that marijuana is a considerably less dangerous drug than speed, LSD or heroin, and should be recognized as such. The bill contains only slim provisions for drug research and education and none at all for rehabilitation of addicts. Meanwhile the Administration launched "Operation Intercept" (see box, p. 70), described by officials as the largest search-and-seizure operation ever conducted by civil authorities in peacetime, in an attempt to stem the flow of drugs from Mexico...