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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...block of East 10th Street, about four miles from the warehouse, Patrolman J. D. Tippitt, 38, driving alone in a squad car, heard the call. He saw a man on the sidewalk and stopped his car to question him. The fellow's height and weight corresponded to the description. He had kinky brown hair, a prominent forehead, thick eyebrows, a crimped, tight mouth, and a defiant air. Tippitt and the man exchanged a few words. Then the policeman got out of his car and walked around to the sidewalk. The man pulled a .38-cal. revolver, shot and killed...
...retired Knoxville restaurateur, has stocked the Haven with big-horned aoudad (wild sheep) from North Africa, mouflons from Corsica, elk from Canada, sika deer from Japan and red stags from Bavaria. In two days of casual shooting at the Haven last week, three hunters bagged four wild turkeys (average weight: 22 Ibs.), three huge boars, a 425-lb. black bear and two aoudads-one with 29-in. horns. Grinned one of the happy trio: "I feel like the last of the Habsburgs...
Nowadays, he thinks a great deal about ways to increase exports. A main target is the U.S., where his firm's sales will double this year-largely because of the success of an ASEA control device that can check the weight and thickness of a sheet of metal without touching it. ASEA is in the running for a contract to supply $50 million worth of equipment for a high-voltage power line from Bonneville Dam to Los Angeles, and last week Nicolin said that he plans to begin selling synthetic industrial diamonds in the U.S. by next year. Though...
...freshman, rooming in Weld 32, his first project was to make the freshman football team. He managed to do this, despite his low weight of 156 pounds, and became a reasonably sure-fingered end. The next year, however, because of sprained back, Kennedy did less well in football. He played occasionally on the junior varsity, and then quit football at the end of the season...
When Martin tries to offset the statistics with such personal observations, his economists sometimes complain that he has not given enough weight to the staff's figures. At such times, Martin likes to paraphrase G. K. Chesterton to show that he, too, takes his polling modestly: "A drunkard uses a lamp pole for support, not for illumination...