Word: toledo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some lake! Industrial wastes from Detroit's auto companies, Toledo's steel mills and the paper plants of Erie, Pa., have helped turn Lake Erie into a gigantic cesspool. Of 62 beaches along its U.S. shores, only three are rated completely safe for swimming. Even wading is unpleasant; as many as 30,000 sludge worms carpet each square yard of lake bottom...
...life sentence of a major Mafia mobster early this year, ostensibly because of age, ill health and good behavior. And for years, Rhodes has been using political campaign funds for his own personal purposes. Special Favors. The Mafia character is Yonnie Licavoli, now 65, who has been running Toledo numbers rackets by long distance and raking in underworld income from Detroit and else where- all the while reposing in his cell at the Ohio State Penitentiary. He was sent up for life in 1934 for murdering and conspiring to murder two gambling competitors, a Toledo bootlegger and the bootlegger...
...gloomy!" she cried to friends gathered at the small cafe in Madrid. "When I get out, we will go to the country and roast a lamb." With that, Luisa Isabel Alvarez de Toledo Maura, 32, Duchess of Medina Sidonia, crossed the street to a courthouse to begin serving a one-year prison sentence. The duchess, whose title* is one of the most venerated in her country, was convicted of illegal protest when she led the villagers of Palomares on a protest trip to Madrid on the first anniversary of the crash of a U.S. bomber bearing a load...
...Toledo, 150 women and children invaded welfare-department headquarters last month, tumbling workers from their chairs and tossing mounds of paper work onto the floor. In Boston, 50 others staged a raucous sit in at the Massachusetts Statehouse, refusing to budge until police carted them away. Forty-four more were arrested last week in Cleveland when they took over the big welfare offices on St. Clair Avenue. Such demonstrations by the welfare poor have become commonplace. Even as politicians and taxpayers bitterly complain about spiraling welfare budgets, those on the receiving end are demanding-and receiving-far more...
...Rudolf Wittkower, made a brief but much applauded appearance at Manhattan's Knoedler's Galleries. Next week, a collection of 60 sketches assembled by the Salzburg Dealer-Scholar Kurt Rossacher goes on view in Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Gallery, and will subsequently be seen in Toledo, Providence and Minneapolis...