Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital. His recovery from the bullet that ripped through his chest, wrist and thigh has been rapid. His punctured lung has re-inflated and is healing beyond all original expectations. Each day he is up and about for a bit longer. Half of the stainless steel wires used to stitch together his torn thigh have been removed. Doctors predicted that the Governor would leave the hospital in a week or so, should recover with little more to show than a collection of scars, possibly a stiff wrist-and a horrifying memory...
...American eyes are quick to turn from our stainless steel to some of our spineless, sordid screen productions. I sincerely hope that America will refuse to have filth poured over their country in the name...
...grey helicopter, its red lights blinking, swung past the floodlit Washington Monument, came down onto a steel landing pad on the south lawn of the White House, some 70 feet from Caroline and John Kennedy's treehouse, swing and jungle-gym set. Johnson walked through the flower garden into the oval presidential office. There secretaries had cleared Jack Kennedy's desk of personal mementos: a coconut shell on which he had carved a message of his survival after his PT boat sank in World War II, a silver calendar noting the dates of his confrontation with Nikita Khrushchev...
...jittery, harmless-looking little man in steel-rimmed spectacles was accused of murder, and he had long since confessed. Now, after four days of testimony and five hours of deliberation, the jurors had reached a verdict. They found the defendant, Howard Pierson, 49, not guilty by reason of insanity...
Labor has obvious reasons for fear. Since 1957, the federation's membership has dropped by 344,000, although the non-farm work force has risen from 52.9 million to 57.4 million; in the past six years the United Auto Workers and the United Steel Workers have lost 183,000 and 195,000 members respectively. Automation has been the primary cause of both declines...