Word: mastermind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lieut. Calley stands indicted as the heinous mastermind of the whole My Lai incident. In the interest of judicial equity, however, shouldn't Nixon, Johnson, et al., be codefendants...
...INTENT, oracular faces are identified the first time they speak. After that they blend into a continuum of recurring voices, sometimes coupled with faces, but more often in the background, while the people who haven't learned how to talk kill each other or mastermind the killing...
Perhaps the most fundamental issue dividing Humphrey and Nixon is whether Washington should mastermind or merely encourage social reform. Humphrey is convinced that the government must spend vast amounts of money to better the lot of Negroes, clean up the slums, improve health, transportation and education. Last month he came out for a 50% increase in social security pensions over the next four years, a boost that would ultimately cost $12 billion a year. Since all that money must come from somewhere, Humphrey is considerably less emphatic than Nixon in asserting that this year's 10% income surtax should...
...mastermind behind STP is widely believed to be a mysterious figure named Augustus Owsley Stanley III, 32, grandson of a U.S. Senator from Kentucky, a San Francisco-based hippie chemist who got into the turn-on business two years ago, before the manunfacture and distribution of LSD was made illegal. Known as "the Henry Ford of Psychedelia," Stanley-or Owsley, as he calls himself-is said to have amassed a million-dollar fortune from acid before he turned 31 and the drug was banned. Owsley is dedicated to "turning the whole world on," and not necessarily by acid alone...
Died. Joseph F. McGinnis, 61, Boston gangster and mastermind of the 1950 Brinks robbery-biggest haul ($2,775,395, of which only $56,586 has been recovered) in U.S. history-who had an alibi on the night of the crime, but was betrayed by a member of his ten-man gang, convicted, and given nine concurrent life sentences; of arteriosclerosis; at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, at Walpole...