Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Henrietta Malkiel Poynter, 66, co-founder and editor of the Congressional Quarterly; of a stroke; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Convinced that the daily press missed much of what went on in Congress, Henrietta and her publisher husband Nelson (St. Petersburg Times) in 1945 started printing their Quarterly-now a weekly-which keeps tab on everything from the attendance of Senators to the doings of lobbyists. Circulation barely brushes 4,000, but includes a wide variety of organizations which pay subscription rates running higher than...
...justices' questions immediately went to the heart of those arguments. Chief Justice Earl Warren asked O'Brien's attorney whether it would also be symbolic speech for a soldier in Viet Nam to "break his weapon in front of other soldiers?" As for the purpose of O'Brien's card, added Warren, "we have millions of people in this country floating around. What if he is found in Arizona and he refuses to give any information and the Government wants his card so that it can know his draft status...
...room, I slipped on the rug in the doorway and ran into my father, Dad fell to his knees, the bayonet still in him." Young Fred next beat his mother some more, then loaded both bodies into the car and dropped them into a nearby stream. After that, he went roller-skating. The cold water revived his not-quite-dead mother, however, and she lived to testify against...
...Esherick's defense was that killing his father was an accident. Mrs. Esherick did not think so. As she told it, her husband had rushed in after she was hit with the bayonet, and son and father had wrestled until she "saw Freddy draw his arm back." She went to the living room, picked up the telephone, and then "Freddy grabbed me from behind. I dropped the phone and passed out." When she came to, her husband's body was stuffed in beside her in the car. "I couldn't figure out where I was. I yelled...
...that Simonsen wrote a $32 check to pay for a student-soliciting advertisement in Yachting magazine. The fact that at the time his school existed only in his imagination was no deterrent. When the first student signed up, Simonsen recalls, "I not only wrote each lesson as we went along, but I also cut the stencils and ran them off on the mimeograph...