Word: receipts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote by absentee ballot in his home state. Moreover, he has been stationed in Bexar County (San Antonio) since 1959, owns a home there on which he pays taxes like any other resident. Yet last January, when he and his wife paid poll taxes, Mabry's receipt (unlike his wife's) was stamped "not eligible to vote." Precisely the same thing happened to his friend, Air Force Lieut. David M. Sneary, 26, a former Oklahoman...
...Athens, Ball conferred with Greece's Premier George Papandreou, then jetted on to Ankara where Turkey's Premier Ismet InÖnÜ was already in receipt of a blunt message from President Johnson asking him to cancel at once any decision to land Turkish troops on Cyprus. Ball warned both leaders that the U.S. is tired of having to prevent local wars at the last minute. The knocking of heads together had a seemingly pacific result. At week's end, Inonu accepted an invitation to come to Washington next week for talks with Johnson, and Papandreou...
...morning, Jack Ruby parked his car in a downtown parking lot, walked to a Western Union office to send a $25 money order to Stripper Little Lynn, a faithful former employee who was in straits in Fort Worth. A Western Union employee testified that he stamped Ruby's receipt with his electric clocker at 11:17 a.m. Ruby seemed neither upset nor in a hurry, exchanged pleasantries and departed. According to police measurements, Ruby walked 339 ft. 6 in. down the street to the underground garage ramp of police headquarters, and at precisely 11:21 a.m. he stepped...
...Duke's advice was of little help when the struggling company faced its first policyholder death: to cover the $10 payment due, the firm had only 290 cash on hand. Merrick and another backer dipped into their pockets for the difference, then shrewdly waved the widow's receipt around Durham's Negro neighborhood to prove the integrity of the young company's motto: "Merciful...
...called it a week. "This commission has a sad and solemn duty to perform," said Chief Justice Earl Warren, chairman of the investigating panel. But, he added glumly, "we are operating somewhat in the dark." A first step toward getting the inquiry off the ground would be the receipt of an FBI report on the circumstances surrounding Kennedy's death and the slaying of Lee Harvey Oswald by Dallas Strip Joint Owner Jack Ruby. The report was expected to be forwarded to the Warren commission sometime this week. It will indicate that 1) Oswald, acting in his own lunatic...