Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brooks Brothers, the New York clothiers, makes a nifty set of threads, but $50,000 does seem a bit stiff. Nevertheless, a North Carolina woman named Marion J. Smith is asking that much for an 1865 Brooks Brothers frock coat and suit-namely the one worn by Abraham Lincoln when he was assassinated. The coat came to Mrs. Smith via her grandfather, a White House doorkeeper who was given the clothes by Mary Todd Lincoln. Though the bidding is open to everyone, the National Park Service lusts for the frock coat for its Lincoln Museum in Washington's restored...
...President signed a tough District of Columbia anticrime bill, which is only some what softer than a measure he vetoed last year on constitutional grounds. At that, this year's bill will doubtless be picked over meticulously in the courts. Among other things, the bill gives Washington a stiff antiriot code. While Johnson praised this provision, he questioned two others. One is a clause setting minimum sentences for certain crimes - rather than leaving sentences to the discretion of the court. The second is a provision that allows police to question a suspect for up to three hours before bringing...
...Looking stiff and ill at ease in their unaccustomed civilian clothes, the ruling triumvirate of Greece stood on the stage of the military academy in Athens. It was their first public appearance together since they had resigned from the army earlier last week to give their regime a semblance of civilian respectability. At the close of the ceremony, in which graduating cadets took their oaths, Premier George Papadopoulos, the former colonel who masterminded last April's-coup, shouted: "Long live the King!" Coming from the man whom the King had tried to overthrow only a week earlier...
Brazil's Catholic Church has never, as a whole, been known for opposition to the government. Some members of the church's liberal wing have split off from the rest of the clergy and, in defiance of stiff laws, helped organize labor syndicates, defended student rights and sharp ened public feeling against the country's army. But last week the Brazilian clergy, liberal and conservative alike, angrily rose up in unison. It issued a warning that it would take no nonsense from the army and, moreover, that it intended to exert its influence on the course...
...heart attack; in Montevideo. A former air force general, Gestido was elected to succeed a free-spending nine-man council and save Uruguay from bankruptcy. It seemed a futile hope until October, when soaring inflation and rumors of a coup spurred him to impose a series of stiff reforms, which were greeted by such howls of indignation that he was forced to declare martial...