Word: vernon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vernon Craig, you know," Ross continues. "He was on the Mike Douglas Show, Now when you torture people or cause them pain, their blood pressure goes up, and his goes down. It's driving the doctors...
...half a dozen people in the world that do it," he adds, if he is asked whether harm might not come to people trying to break the "duration record for lying on a bed of nails (needle-sharp 6-inch nails, 2 inches apart)" which is "25 hours by Vernon E. Craig (Komar, the Indian fakir...
Swimming Pool. Atlanta Chevrolet Dealer Doug McCurdy is getting browsers in a buying mood by letting them work off frustrations by taking a sledgehammer to an old Mercury emblazoned with the words INFLATION, RECESSION, GLOOM, DOOM. In Mount Vernon, Ohio, Lincoln-Mercury Dealer Jack Ostrander has started accepting cattle from local farmers as part of a trade-in deal on new cars. Ostrander pays 65? per Ib. for steers or heifers, which he ships to his farm for resale later...
...radically have the climate and strategy of the civil rights movement altered in the past few years that Vernon Jordan, executive director of the Urban League, says: "We will not see the era of a Martin Luther King again, but the movement is still viable, and we are still fighting the good fight." Without King's consummate leadership, the movement would never have entered today's more dispassionate era of quiet and increasingly assured accomplishment...
...used to go around his home turning out lights, "felt like a sucker paying $3 for a hotel breakfast," and preferred to fly tourist class. His one indulgence was a showcase residence in Dallas-an oversized version of George Washington's Mount Vernon home. Typically, he had bought it at a bargain-basement price of $60,000 during the Depression...