Word: squelches
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Obviously sensitive on the point, and anxious to squelch the talk of Soviet vulnerability. Tass last week produced new evidence it said came from Powers himself. "Apparently my father misunderstood my answers when I was on trial," Tass quoted Powers as writing in a letter to the New York Times. "I am sure my plane did not blow up by itself. All the indicators that register the performance of the engine were in good order until the very moment of the explosion which I felt and heard . . . I was at the maximum height when the explosion occurred...
...Squelch of the week, delivered by Michigan's Cross Co. (automation machinery) after the United Auto Workers charged that a "strikebreaker mob" inflicted a "vicious beating" on U.A.W. Member Michael Oravec during the union's current drive to organize Cross workers...
...Kansas, Kennedy forces claimed to have control of the delegation through one man: Governor George Docking. But Favorite Son Docking did nothing to squelch the recent upsurge of party sentiment for Senator Stuart Symington, whose Missouri support spills across the state line. In the 42-man delegation, guessed Governor Docking, Kennedy and Symington are running about even in a delegation that votes under a unit rule. Kennedyites explained that they had taken off the pressure so as not to hurt Governor Docking in his unprecedented campaign for a third term...
Opening at Manhattan's Copacabana, Joe E. Lewis entertained an audience that included his usual hecklers, one of whom was soon on the short end of a new Lewis squelch: "Sir, you're a disgrace to your sex, whichever that...
...year job as a director of the Tennessee Valley Authority by President Eisenhower: Arkansas' former Democratic Congressman Brooks Hays, 60, defeated last November in his bid for re-election by an eleventh-hour write-in vote of Little Rock school segregationists, hastily mobilized to squelch Moderate Hays and his gradualism...