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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brother and four sisters grew up in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. in a home that was not prosperous but was pleasant. The Rev. Case was not a formal man. When Clifford Jr. found a diagram for a sailboat on wheels, his father helped him build one in the attic. The sight of Pastor Case riding down the street with two or three of his children in the hybrid vehicle was, for a time, the talk of Poughkeepsie...
...Purdue's powerful line is the fact that Len had to "eat the ball" only once the first 29 times he dropped back to pass.) But even as a high-school student in Alliance, Ohio, Len had a well-developed knack of winning all the athletic honors in sight. He was captain of the football, basketball and baseball teams; as a senior quarterback, he completed 100 out of 200 passes for a school record of 1,615 yards...
...McCarthy personally, there was neither sight nor sound for six full days after the report was issued. Then he stepped before the television cameras on Meet the Press, and had no surprising answers. He was not challenging the Watkins' committee's fairness, he said, but he did want to point out that some members had a record of anti-McCarthy statements before the hearings began. If the full Senate votes to censure him, he added, it will be setting a precedent of censure for any Senator who "fights Communism." But he would "accept" the Senate's decision...
Speaking to the mental health society in Dallas, Topeka's famed Psychiatrist William C. Menninger deplored the tendency of most Americans to lose sight of the mind in their zeal over certain bodies. "Almost every female in her late teens and 20s knows the chest and waist and hip measurements of Miss America," cried he. "In mental health, unfortunately, we do not have such a widely understood set of goals...
...miles upstream one day and had waded across the Charley to the other side. Later, when Butler wanted to get back to camp and get his boat, he decided to swim the river--about 25 yards across. Two-thirds across, he suddenly called for help and then disappeared from sight. Although officials spent several weeks searching the river no trace was found. A cross was erected at the side of the river