Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual charges of bossism against the Democrats have been made by the city liberals, FDR Jr., and the Republicans. But the course of the state party conventions reduced them to absurdity: while the Republican, Liberal, and Conservative conventions went docilely through the motions of nominating the unpopular and unknown candidates their party bosses had long since chosen, the Democrats got into a real fight over the Lieutenant-Governorship. They ended up nominating the genuinely attractive Howard Samuels, who was the original choice of none of the "bosses." The surprising nomination of Samuels has made every subsequent charge of Democratic bossism...
Died. Valerie Jeanne Percy, 21, twin daughter of Illinois' Republican Senatorial Candidate Charles Percy; murdered by an unknown assailant; in Kenilworth, Ill. (seeTHE NATION...
...side, but in most states the prosecutor can hale the defendant's probable witnesses before a secret grand jury, thus discover his case before the trial, and even pressure him into pleading guilty and skipping the trial altogether. By contrast, the prosecutor's case may remain unknown until his witnesses testify in open court, perhaps too late for the defense to mount an effective cross-examination or rebuttal...
Everywhere he went, the visitor smelled ether, a sure sign of outdated anesthesia techniques. Disposable products such as linens and syringes were unknown, though they are in wide use in the U.S. "Diagnostic work is primitive," said Hall. "Xray equipment is antiquated. Blood-chemistry analysis is inefficient." The leisurely, informal pace was astounding. At a 500-bed hospital, ten to 15 operations a day are normal in Russia-compared with 35 to 50 in the U.S. At Moscow's Neurosurgical Institute, the entire staff turned out to hear Dr. Hall lecture on the air-powered drills and bone saws...
...probably is not. In any case, Phillips is still living as good a yarn as he tells. He has just sold, for about $1,000,000, a cattle ranch in Nevada and published a new book, Unknown Oman. Last week, after a brief cruise in the Greek Isles, he flew to New York on the spur of the moment, went to Texas to dine with Oilman John Mecom, continued on to San Francisco and Honolulu. Next, he contemplates going to Viet Nam, where he is an accredited war correspondent for Scripps-Howard...