Word: vernon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vernon was getting impatient. He was playing with his keys and looking around the room. I understood that he had come for more important business and I decided to skip the next couple of questions on my list...
Professor Vernon next. Short and very unlikely-looking. A crooked yellow bow-tie and a big smile. He would eat me I thought...
...Vernon leaned over to Bob Bowie, and explained that I was voicing the criticism of those who thought that foreign policy was decided by a small group in the CIA. the Pentagon, the CFIA, and the White House. Then he smiled...
Died. Stella Crater Kunz, 82, former wife of New York State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater, the central figure in one of the century's classic mysteries; in Mt. Vernon, N.Y. On the evening of August 6, 1930, the recently appointed justice stepped into a taxi after attending a Manhattan dinner party and vanished. A sensational manhunt followed, but failed to turn up a clue. Crater was declared legally dead in 1939 (Stella Crater remarried in 1938), but the case remains unsolved to this...
...JOBS AND POLITICAL POWER have become the goal. "There is a more serious concentration now on the hard issues of economics and politics" says Vernon Jordan, director of the Southern Regional Council's Voter Education Project. Jordan finds it hopeful that blacks have elected mayors in Fayette, Miss., and Chapel Hill, N.C., and the sheriff of Macon County, Ala. Those successes are partly counterbalanced by such setbacks as the defeat of black Councilman Tom Bradley in the Los Angeles mayoral race and the landslide election of a tough law-enforcement mayor in Minneapolis...