Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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On his 86th birthday, Sir Winston Churchill, recovering from the fracture of a minor bone in his back from a bed room fall, abruptly announced that he intended to rise phoenixlike and have a party. When Lady Churchill and his doctors vetoed the inspiration, Britain's most eminent citizen...
Ill lay: Pro Tennistar Karol Fageros, 26, whose broken ribs were mending in a Youngstown, Ohio hospital, after an Ohio Turnpike collision between a truck and a chartered bus carrying Karol and the New York Skyscrapers pro basketball team on an exhibition tour; Miriam Amanda ("Ma") Ferguson, 85, first woman...
After losing 14 Ibs. in a sleep-little month, Laos' jungle doctor, Thomas A. Dooley, visited Hong Kong to talk about a new Southeast Asian hospital program, soon was in a hospital himself with an initial diagnosis of "sheer exhaustion." Because Dooley was operated on for chest cancer last...
In the center of all the excitement in New Orleans last week, School Superintendent James F. Redmond appeared in court to face a lawsuit. He had refused to release the names of children in integrated schools. Why? Redmond's answers were polite, professional. His lawyer was not satisfied. Said...
Quiet resolution in the face of extraordinary pressure has come to be the mark of Superintendent Redmond, 45, who in the past four months has been vilified and "fired" by the state legislature, enjoined by the federal courts, sued by one of his bosses, insulted by the citizens of his...