Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Meanwhile, out on a snowy, nearby mountain slope, a courageous couple and their daughter (Judy Sanford) are near death from cold and starvation after a long trek west in search of a new life. But miraculously they stumble onto Sutter's Fort, where the revelers suspect them of claim-jumping, refuse to believe her story when the woman (Patricia Neway) explains...
...issue has excited many other rivalries. The Globe (for) and the Herald (against) are continually fighting it out, and the Legislature sees the demand for a convention as Executive intrusion upon its authority. Many outside the government, such as the Herald, claim that the General Court is the proper and most responsible body to make reforms. Still, the 13 amendments passed by the General Court since 1919 have been piecemeal revision, and the major ones that have gotten by one session, for instance the 4-year gubernatorial term, have perished the following year. Political interest and inertia make the Legislature...
...Todd remained behind in London to keep up the side, dressed herself in Ptolemaic Merry Mites as if to prove that she might at least have played Cleopatra as a tot. Meanwhile with shooting at a dead stop, Lloyd's was faced with what will be the largest claim -at least $2,800,000-ever made against the insurers of a motion picture...
...election of a U.S. President from the Catholic community dramatizes this claim. And whether or not the Catholics have been the true custodians of the American consensus, as Murray would have it, there is no denying that a new era has begun for Catholics in America, a country that in itself represents a new era in the history of church and state...
...LITHOGRAPHS OF CHAGALL (220 pp ; Braziller; $25), has 237 reproductions « of them in color, which probably bears out the publisher's claim that it is a definitive collection of the artist's lithographs. Since they date from 1922 to 1960, Marc Chagall's development becomes fascinatingly apparent. That he drew well from the start is evident from so simple a sketch as Woman Walking. But, typical of Chagall, it is not quite so simple as it might seem. The woman is leaning almost to the point of falling, and her hands are pressed together...