Word: senting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thin-skinned Las Vegans have almost religious awe for such entrepreneurs as Billionaire Hughes and Multimillionaire Kerkorian, a onetime used-plane salesman who now is the largest stockholder in Western Airlines. They are seen as saviors sent to rescue the town from its reputation as a haven for crooks. Nobody seems to know how much Mafia money is still invested in Vegas (estimates range from none at all, which is patently ridiculous, to upwards of $100 million), but Hughes and Kerkorian have indeed lent the town at least a patina of respectability. In Hughes' six casinos, for example, gaming...
...began to mass two regiments in the area and occasionally to shell Dak To and Ben Het. In the past, the U.S. would have rushed American infantrymen to the aid of the South Vietnamese. This time they did not. In an effort to head off an attack, Lien sent South Vietnamese battalions into craggy mountains around the two bases. At first the South Vietnamese fought well and aggressively. But after a month in the field, they wearied. Unfortunately, the South Vietnamese still seemed incapable of fighting a prolonged and bloody engagement with the more determined and seasoned North Vietnamese regulars...
National Goals. The Senate meanwhile passed and sent to the House a measure that would permit states to reduce certain Medicaid services without risking the loss of federal aid. Under the bill, states would still be required to provide basic services: hospital and nursing-home care, outpatient treatment, preventive care for children, physicians' fees, laboratory costs and X rays. But the states would be permitted to drop coverage of dental care, prescription drugs and eyeglasses. The Senate measure will enable financially pressed states to cut burgeoning costs without abandoning their Medicaid programs altogether...
...Cleveland Indians (1946-49), the St. Louis Browns (1951-53) and the White Sox (1959-61), he annoyed fellow owners by introducing jugglers and tightrope walkers into the pre-game festivities and staging cow-milking contests for players. Though Veeck is perhaps best remembered as the man who sent a 3-ft. 7-in. midget to bat against the Detroit Tigers,* he also performed some praiseworthy services for the game. He broke the color barrier in the American League by hiring Outfielder Larry Doby in 1947, set attendance records (his 1948 season total of 2,620,627 is still...
...Connecticut court, four Negro boys were convicted by an all-white jury in October of raping a 14-year-old white girl named Donna Papineau. One of them, 16-year-old Gary Palmer, was sent to the state reformatory at Cheshire. His two brothers, 17 and 19, along with a 19-year-old cousin named Arturo Palmer, a college-scholarship winner, were given prison terms ranging from nine to 16 years. The only eyewitness was Donna, who testified that the boys forced her into a car in Stamford and took her to an apartment where all four beat and raped...