Word: seven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smooth lawyer was trying his greatest case. It was, said one who observed it, "the gutsiest performance I've ever seen or ever heard about." For seven months the argument raged. Johnson said little, but he was listening. Clifford threw all his weight behind arguments that persuaded the President to order the partial suspension of bombing of North Viet Nam on March 31 to get talks with Hanoi under way. Again, Clifford's view held sway when bombing was halted altogether on Oct. 31 in an effort to rescue the negotiations from stalemate...
...days in bed. To the elderly and those suffering from chronic heart or respiratory diseases, it can be a prelude to fatal complications. Last week some 213 deaths in the U.S. were at tributed to the disease and accompanying complications. To try to protect the aged and infirm, seven national drug firms have produced 17 million doses of vaccine that are now being distributed across the country. Among the first vaccinated: former President Harry Truman...
Since 1962, an organization named The Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau Ltd. has been analyzing all monster sightings. Its volunteer members have shot pictures of monsterlike objects from seven lakeside camera stations. The most famous Loch Ness photograph, taken by a touring surgeon in 1934, shows a long-necked creature making waves in the lake...
...theologians proposed seven specific reforms. The most notable was a demand that the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, now dominated by conservatives, be revamped to reflect a wider spectrum of theological opinion. The statement also declared that no theologian accused of error should be heard in secret, and that if a hearing is necessary, the case should be decided by a board of experts, half of them chosen by the defendant himself...
Denture Collection. The subscription list is now 4,000, and the average customer runs up a bill of $96 a year-and that is a wonder. To be sure, the show runs straight through without commercials. But after seven unprofitable and uncertain years WHCT has lost its ambition; now nearly all of its programs are movies. Worse, they are seen only in black and white, and are not strictly first-run (last week's offerings included Frank Sinatra in The Detective). In earlier days, WHCT was more venturesome. It carried a 1963 Joan Baez concert live...