Word: spared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spoiler? Last week, after a 33-day filibuster and three abortive attempts to turn off the talkathon by a two-thirds majority vote, Dirksen and the liberals finally succeeded in invoking cloture, though without a single vote to spare. With members now restricted to one hour's speaking, the Senate took up 43 separate amendments to the bill, whose open-housing clause had been tacked onto the House version by Minnesota's Walter Mondale...
...made its first computer in 1959 as a natural outgrowth of its business in office machines, has so far sold or leased $100 million worth of smaller series computers, including 55 NCR 590s bought by the Pentagon to travel around South Viet Nam in G.I. trucks keeping track of spare parts. NCR has also marketed $200 million worth of a secondgeneration computer known as the NCR 315, including one $16 million order from Japan's Sumitomo Bank, Ltd., which accounts for NCR's largest order...
...committee for the U.S. Judicial Conference last week announced its own proposed set of guidelines. Worried newsmen will be pleased. The committee, headed by U.S. Judge Irving Kaufman, agreed with the A.B.A. that lawyers and court officials should not be permitted to reveal any but a few basic, spare facts. But unlike the A.B.A., the Kaufman group is against barring newsmen from pretrial hearings and portions of the trial not heard by the jury. And it opposes the A.B.A. suggestion that newsmen be held in contempt if they willfully publish material designed to affect the outcome of a trial. Such...
...British diplomats decided, however, to withhold the information from Stalin in order to spare him any personal pain. It was a gentlemanly thing to do; but Stalin had never had much use for his sensitive and with drawn son. He hounded and beat the boy so unmercifully that in the Kremlin one night in the late 1920s, Yakov tried to shoot himself. He only managed to inflict a serious head wound, and Stalin afterward taunted him that he was incapable even of killing himself. It might have impressed the old man to know that his son finally mustered the courage...
...question in the Mediterranean is whether the Russians will move into the Algerian naval base at Mers-el-Kebir, which the French evacuated last month; it is only 315 miles east of Gibraltar. Russians have also used their influence with the Arabs to set up secret stockpiles of spare parts within trucking distance of Arab ports...