Word: solness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government would insure investors against losses by guaranteeing to purchase securities at parity-the 1962 highs. The certificates will be stored in Billie Sol Estes' cotton warehouses. Called STOC-CARE, the scheme will be a part of the social security program and cost only $15 a year...
...even though we might have someone else-a movie star or a novelist-on the cover. Other weeks it is the cover that seems to be the draw. And often, of course, cover subject, newsi-ness and public interest happily coincide. Such was the case with the recent Billie Sol Estes cover. The newsstand interest in this spectacular Texas bankrupt, added to the rising number of regular TIME subscribers, combined to make that issue our alltime leader in circulation, with 2,784,000 copies...
...polecat . . . this vile, corrupt creature . . . this damnable skunk . . ." In these pungent terms, recalling a bygone style of political vituperation, Minnesota's Republican Representative H. Carl Andersen, last week on the House floor, attacked Washington Columnist Drew Pearson, who had written about Andersen's involvement in the Billie Sol Estes scandal (TIME cover, May 25). Andersen, senior Republican on the House subcommittee on agricultural appropriations, is so far the only Republican in Congress to be seriously tarnished by the Estes case: he took $4,000 from Estes for stock in a coal mine owned by the Andersen family, failed...
Dust & Dirt. By presidential taste, the Republican Tribune rarely makes pleasant reading these days. While other papers, as if anxious to give Kennedy the benefit of all possible doubt, waited for the dust in Pecos to settle a bit before jumping onto the Billie Sol Estes story, the Trib not only stirred dust but dished dirt. Eight days before the New York Times, for example, saw fit to move the developments in Pecos onto Page One, the Trib's frontpage headlines screamed: TEXAS SCANDAL REACHES...
...from a little girl in Washington whose three-year-old friend Caroline told her there was no New York Herald Tribune, Buchwald wrote a jolly "Yes, Virginia" reply sprinkled with needles: "Not believe in the Herald Tribune? It's like saying you don't believe in Billie Sol Estes or Pecos, Texas...