Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trying to close down the underground railroad ever since it began. They have arrested 220 minor passeurs, and recently picked up a man they believe is one of the leaders of the ring. Last week the French police began a major offensive: from the Interior Ministry came orders to throw all available men into border patrols and road checks throughout southwestern France. "One can only condemn these smugglers," said an outraged French official. "It is an occupation for men who have lost their sense of morality. They abuse the poorest people in Europe...
Where do you start describing a team like this one? A good place would be last June's NCAA championships at Eugene, Ore. There Captain Art Croasdale got off a 189 ft., 2 in. hammer throw for a third place. Tony Lynch ran a 51.4 in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles. Chris Pardee cleared 6 ft., 10 in. in the high jump, and, like Lynch, took a fourth. A week later, in the USTFF championships at Corvallis, Ore., John Bakkensen threw the discus 179 ft., 9 in., and John Ogden ran a 1:51.6 half-mile. All the parformances were...
...more important were the effects of President Kennedy's assassination. The shock of losing a President made most Americans wary of sudden changes in command and eager for continuity and stability. The bitter "Throw the bums out!" atmosphere of so many 1962 (and 1960 and 1963) state campaigns was replaced by a "Things are O.K.--keep the incumbents in" attitude...
...exercise in futility. No sooner would the Government dislodge one unjust voting law than Southern legislatures would dream up another. "Then," says Nick Katzenbach, "you've got to bring suits to throw these out too. You've got to go all the way to the Supreme Court, and when you get that done, there's nothing to prevent them from coming up with something else...
...town) rather than a dog, and as far as your justices know, the matter is still 'under advisement.' " So is just about everything else. "Nobody knows what to do with the pile of old complaints and warrants accumulated over 14 years, and nobody has the courage to throw them away." They will doubtless endure for the delight of "some archaeologist digging in the remains of Amherst." As for himself, says Justice Lincoln, it feels great to be "relieved of the necessity of maintaining the judicial demeanor...