Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Necessary Resolve. All Jones actually won was the right to bring a suit to force the St. Louis development to sell him a house. He may well win, but every other Negro who feels that race alone has prevented him from buying a home may have to bring a similar suit to force the sale. Proving such a case may be difficult, and few prospective buyers are likely to have the necessary resolve, money and patience...
Closed Doors. The same thing could have happened to Cotner in most other states. Virtually all of them have anti-sodomy statutes similar to Indiana's-many phrased with matching euphemism. Illinois and a few others except all consenting adults, and most law-enforcement agencies do not bother with such cases. Cotner nonetheless faced a long term, since convicted sex offenders rarely win parole until most of their sentence...
...earn $100 for each day that she performs as a royal saleslady. The current Miss America, Kansas' Debra Dene Barnes, will pick up $100,000 this year for presiding at the opening of a Pepsi-Cola bottling plant or perching on the fender of a new Oldsmobile. Through similar promotions, the 49 other state finalists in the Miss America contest will reap about $20,000 each...
...Thus, when the name change takes place, accompanied by an exchange of A.T. & S.F. stock for equal shares in Santa Fe Industries, the railroad will be merely a portion of the bigger company. Chairman and Chief Executive Ernest S. Marsh, 65, and President John S. Reed, 51, will hold similar titles in the new organization, and all other jobs and activities will remain pretty much the same...
...plane scarcely matches the promised performance of U.S. airbuses. Lockheed's L-1011, for example, will fly almost twice as far, carry more passengers (345 v. 298), cost $15 million as against the A-300's $11 million. McDonnell Douglas' DC-10 holds a somewhat similar edge. And the U.S. models are due to go into commercial service in 1971, at least a year sooner than the European version...