Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...considered it well, then spat on his hands. After all, old William Green had indulgently introduced him as "the next Senator from Minnesota" at a recent A.F.L. convention. The fact that Minnesota had not elected a Democrat to the Senate for 90 years discouraged him not at all. That fall he drove 31,000 miles through the Minnesota birch lands, mountains and lake country, attended 500 meetings, lost 19 Ibs., and beat Joe Ball by 243,693 votes...
When shrimpy Dick Morrison, bush-league burglar, was dressed out of Chicago's House of Correction in the fall of 1957 after serving four months on a petty larceny conviction, he hung up his flashlight, he says, and pretty much set about trying to be a good boy. He found honest work with an oil company by day and a pizzeria by night and settled down to thoughts of marriage and meeting pay ments for the new furniture in his North Side apartment...
...special high-speed drill rushed down from the northern Transvaal 300 miles away to punch a 13-in. air and food hole straight down from the surface to the entombed men. But the drill hit solid rock 80 feet down, slowing the job. And as torrential rains began to fall, threatening new cave-ins, no one but the desperate families outside held out much hope for the 440 men sealed inside No. 10 section...
Jordan, who will resume his teaching duties at Harvard next fall, will be on leave of absence starting Monday...
...speakers will be Wilma A. Kerby-Miller, Dean of the Graduate School, Kathleen O. Elliott, Dean of Instruction, and Emily B. Lacey, Director of the Radcliffe College Development Fund. Jordan will be on research leave of absence beginning February 1, and will resume teaching at the University in the Fall...