Word: tennes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...very embarrassing for the Tories. In desperation, Quintin Hogg, Minister for Science, mustered a patriotic appeal: "It is better to be British than anything else," said Hogg, whose mother was the daughter of a Nashville, Tenn., judge. "No other conviction will serve in a time of discomfort...
...Expose Dunghills? A charming man when he chooses to be, Rowan was born of impoverished parents in McMinnville, Tenn., left home in 1942 for college and became, at 19, one of the first Negroes to earn a Navy commission. After getting a master's degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota, he was hired by the Minneapolis Tribune as a copyreader, finally argued his way into a reporting job. The Tribune sent Rowan-long before racial strife was top news-into the South to see how much things had progressed for the Negro since Rowan...
...looked as though he would be in town for quite a while, and so Jimmy Hoffa, 50, decided to throw the old weight around. Working out with bar bells in a Chattanooga, Tenn., Y.M.C.A., he started with relatively short, painless sessions. That, explained Instructor Bill Floyd, was because the hardheaded teamster boss was going a little soft in the gut. Hoffa will need all the exercise he can get. He's in Chattanooga for a federal trial (his fifth) on jury-tampering charges stemming from his fourth court appearance, and it promises to be a lively one. His attorneys...
...matter of record that on Dec. 22, 1963, 14 in. of snow fell on Memphis, Tenn. It is also a matter of record that less than 12 in. of snow fell on Innsbruck, Austria, during the whole of December. The point, of course, is that Innsbruck is a ski resort in the Tyrolean Alps-and the site, this week, of the ninth Winter Olympics...
...jubilant Jimmy, there were gloomier times just around the corner. In Chattanooga, Tenn., this week he goes to trial on charges of jury tampering-the sixth federal indictment brought against him in six years...