Word: sheridan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...versatile tanks that take naturally to water, which are being assembled at General Motors' Cleveland plant. The Sheridan, the most revolutionary tank since World War II, is the U.S.'s first with a cannon capable of firing both conventional shells and guided missiles. It can be air-dropped from C-130 or C-141 cargo planes (by eight 100-ft.-wide parachutes) without damage, swim like a turtle across water obstacles. After testing, it will go into operation within a year. An even more versatile vehicle, the MBT-70 (for Main Battle Tank...
Married. Ann Sheridan, 51, a wisecracking chick in 1940 movies (Torrid Zone); and Scott McKay, 51, perennial road-company leading man; both for the third time; in Bel Air, Calif...
Determined to do something about his weakness for vodka that had earned him a record of minor brushes with the law, Army Veteran Carl Holm, 28, voluntarily went to a veterans mental hospital in Sheridan, Wyo. When he was given town privileges, though, Holm wasted no time getting drunk and passing out on the hospital lawn. "It's my opinion," said a harried doctor after locking up the patient, "that you're a hopeless alcoholic and should spend the rest of your life in this ward...
...Liberty. After a jury ordered Holm back into the hospital last year, his young court-appointed Sheridan lawyer, James E. Birchby, appealed to the Wyoming Supreme Court on the grounds that the jury had been given hearsay evidence about Holm's mental condition. The law permitting this, he argued, denied the due process guaranteed by the 14th Amendment as well as the Wyoming constitution. Last month the court agreed and set Holm free. "It still remains the fundamental law of the land," said the court, "that a person cannot be deprived of his liberty-whether by involuntary hospitalization...
...those who become incensed by what they see as merely personal views, the signers of this letter are supporters of civil rights, SNCC, LBJ, academic freedom in Tougaloo, Miss. and in Cambridge, Mass. Also, we are seniors who will not be affected personally by future trends in RGA. C. Sheridan Murphy '65 Caroline D. Warner...