Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Republican Keynoter Walter Judd: "We ought to dispense with the idea of having people in the galleries. Instead, we should put everyone except the delegates outside and let them watch through television. I wouldn't even let the press and television men wander up the aisles to interview everybody right in the middle of the proceedings. With all these people in there, the whole thing has just gotten too cumbersome...
When they left Washington together, Mitchell and Martin told their boss that they were off to the West Coast to visit their parents. Instead, they went to Mexico City, checked in at a cheap hotel, told the clerk that they would be staying about two weeks. Next morning they abruptly checked out, later boarded a plane for Havana. Last week the Defense Department glumly announced that from Cuba the pair had apparently "gone behind the Iron Curtain," and added, as reassuringly as it could, that the two men did not know any important secrets...
...Navy was understandably in no hurry to advertise Lieut. Barnes' embarrassment-or its own. But Chance Vought Aircraft, Inc., makers of the plane, thought it too good a story to keep-as if the brief flight proved something special about their plane instead of something forgetful about the man who flew...
...week the Soviet embassy granted visas to Powers' wife and mother, enabling them to arrive in Moscow shortly before Powers goes on trial on Aug. 17, his 31st birthday. Four lawyers seeking to defend Powers, including Columbia University's Russian expert, John N. Hazard, were denied visas; instead a court-assigned Soviet lawyer will represent Powers. The airman will face espionage charges in the military section of the Soviet Supreme Court. If convicted, Powers can be sentenced to from seven years' imprisonment to death. Unless the Russians change their minds, his family will not be permitted...
Watching her husband over the years, Selby's wife Wilma found out about his other life. As he told it afterwards, she was forever suspecting him, inspected him nightly for telltale lipstick, once threatened to kill him. Instead, early last year, methodical Accountant Joseph Selby set out to hire somebody to kill Wilma...