Word: superiorities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer to Ian Fleming, was in London to do a little spying on "James Bond's town" and gather background for his new counterespionage epic, Avvakum Zakhov Meets James Bond. Chunky Gulyashki made it no secret that Communist Superagent Zakhov, armed mainly with "strict logic and a superior mind," will try to defeat the capitalist lout in a "struggle to create a society of free and dignified people...
...years old, and was first arrested for drunkenness at age 24," Joe Driver told North Carolina Superior Court Judge Raymond Mallard. "Since then I have spent two-thirds of my life in jail for drinking. Yes, sir, I consider myself an alcoholic. I want to do something about it, but it don't look like I can." The judge had a question: "If I counted correctly, would it be right that you have been up for being publicly drunk 203 times?" The number of offenses made no difference to Driver, who had stopped counting long since. But it made...
Time was when Indians used to tie the legs of a captive to separate bent saplings, then let the trees spring erect to tear the poor fellow in two. Last week modern Braves were in a legal quandary that could have the same sapling effect. Although a Georgia superior court has ordered baseball's National League Braves to play their 1966 games in Atlanta, a Wisconsin circuit court ordered the team to make plans to continue playing in Milwaukee...
...article also contained a defense of of Union food y Graham C. Hurlbut, director of the Harvard Food Service. He told the Yardling that, "We serve nothing but superior quality food, probably better than home cooking." He added that a reorganization of the Union two years ago had produced, "an aesthetic and efficient system...
Died. Kaufman Thuma Keller, 80, titan of the auto industry for 21 years as president (1935-50), then chairman (1950-56) of Chrysler Corp.; of a heart attack; in London. "K.T." always referred to himself as "a machinist by trade," and so he was, winning Chrysler a reputation for superior engineering although he had never won a degree, increasing annual production to 1,000,000 cars by 1949 and making the company the nation's No. 3 automaker. At the start of World War II he was asked if Chrysler could make tanks. "Sure," answered K.T., "when...