Word: turne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least of all Mario ("Will you please stop calling me Mr. Procaccino?"), would dispute the Democratic candidate's credentials to lead the revolt of the average man. He is as common as the machine clubhouse, a journeyman politician who worked hard, if without special distinction, and waited his turn. As he insists on informing people on every street corner, he is "not pretty" ? a useful attribute, he feels, in his war with Lindsay and the Beautiful Peo ple. He wears electric-blue suits and watermelon-pink shirts and in speech and gesture accentuates the ethnic...
...more thought and less vehemence, and with a more traditionally conservative cast. His presence underscores the fact that the main issues in the campaign have almost erased party lines. The Democratic and Republican candidates have far more in common with each other than with the independent Lindsay, who in turn seeks votes from both parties...
ONLY the Army knows why it is so determined to prosecute six of its own officers in Viet Nam for executing an alleged double agent named Thai Khac Chuyen. Whatever the reasons, the murder trials of the Green Beret officers that are supposed to begin later this month could turn into the most sensational courts-martial in U.S. history. The result may be the severest test to date of the judicial system that has governed the military for almost 20 years-the Uniform Code of Military Justice (U.C.M.J...
...case to the Court of Military Appeals and then try to shift it to the federal courts. The Army, which likes to prosecute its law violators in private, is not likely to appreciate all the notoriety. The savvy lawyers on the defense team could easily bend the system to turn the accused into heroes...
...details even border on the esoteric: when the story of Joseph's temptation by Potiphar's wife is sung in synagogue, the book notes, the musical notation over the word "refused" is long and drawn-out, "suggesting that it was not easy for Joseph to turn away from this temptation...