Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that 1,081 Negro children should be expelled from Birmingham schools for demonstrating, Judge Tuttle began hearing an appeal within six hours. Two days later he ordered the children reinstated immediately. In Americus, Ga., four civil rights workers were indicted on a variety of trumped-up charges; Judge Tuttle went to the town, convened a three-judge court on the spot, and freed the four. It was also Judge Tuttle who rebuffed Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett and told him firmly that the U.S. Supreme Court must be respected. Barnett had made the mistake of asking Tuttle to ignore the court...
...month or so since Myra, Willie's old lady, dragged him off to Spain ("Willie," she said, "you hit the twin double for four big ones and you expect me to go to the Catskills again?"), but already he has seen three bullfights. The first time Willie went because Myra was out shopping, and it was the only wheel in Madrid. When he got back to the hotel, he was still laughing so hard he had to lie down for ten minutes before he could even tell Myra about it. "Myra," he said, tears running down his cheeks...
Fire on the Sabbath. The son of Polish immigrants who went to Jerusalem when he was a child, Goren was a Talmudic prodigy who became Palestine's youngest ordained rabbi at the age of 16, a year later published a scholarly study of the medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides. He joined the Zionist underground in 1936, was a sniper in Jerusalem during the Palestine war. and became chief rabbi of the Israeli army when it was formed in 1948. Throughout the fighting, Goren also played an active role in a rabbinical committee assigned to study the modernization of Halakah...
Clinical Details. Complaints are beginning to be voiced by the hospital's own staff. Last year interns and resident physicians became so disgruntled with their working conditions and their pay ($3,600 a year for interns and $7,500 for top residents) that they went to the unusual extreme of staging a "heal-in"-admitting far more patients than the hospital could handle. More recently, the bacteriology labs became so overloaded that they had to suspend all diagnostic services to outpatient and emergency wards. Last month, after weeks of long hours and double shifts, the badly undermanned...
...Teddy-bear craze soon diminished, and Steiff, buffeted by economic upheavals and two world wars, had to diversify to stay afloat. Over the years, Margarete Steiffs family (she died in 1909) gradually expanded its facilities to manufacture other toys, including kites, wagons, wooden scooters and construction games. It also went into production of valves for pneumatic tires and fiber glass. Today the various family-owned enterprises are small but unmistakably healthy, with sales totaling some $14 million a year...