Word: sons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without Prejudice. In Chippewa Falls, Wis., learning that her son John had been placed on a jury list. Mrs. Richard Risler informed the county jury commission that John was six weeks...
...came in the just-integrated Washington suburb of Alexandria (pop. 62,000). where Lawyer Armistead L. Boothe, 51, Virginia-born and Oxford-educated, held his senate seat against the combined forces of Virginia-style citizens' councils and all that the Byrd forces could throw against him. Byrd and Son Harry Jr., 44-year-old state senator, personally made calls and wrote letters for the candidacy of their cousin, Marshall J. Beverley, whose savage (for Virginia) campaign was managed by Harry Jr.'s brother-in-law, James M. Thomson. Almond maintained the fiction that he was not involved...
...grants total more than half Libya's annual budget. Rumors rife in Libya of local mismanagement of allied funds are small encouragement to pull out U.S. technicians and let the Libyans spend away on their own. Most of the charges of corruption swirl about a fringe-bearded son of a cousin of King Idris' known as the Black Prince, whose SASCO construction company is currently building a $7,000,000 road that starts 200 miles east of Tripoli and meanders 300 miles through the empty desert to the Sebha oasis...
...Ralph Bunche, Negro, Nobel Peace Prizewinner and United Nations Under Secretary, it was a peaceful moral victory. Only a week had passed since Bunche disclosed that his 15-year-old son had been barred from membership in New York City's fashionable West Side Tennis Club (in Forest Hills, Queens) because of his race (TIME, July 20). Club President Wilfred Burglund, the Manhattan public relations man who had told Bunche that the club excludes Negroes and Jews, resigned last week amidst public clamor for his singed scalp. Then the club's governors were moved to announce...
...took time to rush to the home of a South Philadelphia neighbor when he saw an ambulance drive up. Policeman Domenic Forte had suffered a heart attack, and Bob stuck around to help. Suddenly he had a vision. He turned to the sick cop's 14-year-old son Fabian and asked: "How'd you like to be a singer?" The kid shuddered. "You crazy?" he snarled. Next day Fabian went back to playing basketball and football at South Philadelphia High and $6 a week as a stock clerk in a drugstore...