Word: plate
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...trial for theft and conspiracy last year in San Antonio, his supporters showed up in the courtroom wearing white ribbons that proclaimed: I AM A SATISFIED LENDER TO JOHN MILTON ADDISON (he was acquitted). Twice, in the past five months, his satisfied lenders gave $200-a-plate dinners for him. They have also turned out regularly for revival-style meetings to cheer him on in his fight against "the interests." Typical performance: "You understand I can take your money and tear it up, burn it, throw it away, or spend it on wild, wild women-don't you?" (Screams...
...response from 8,000,000 miles away. Jodrell sent orders speeding into space. First it told Pioneer V to switch half-power current through the filaments of the 150-watt transmitter. Then it called for full-power current. Then it gave the payoff order: to turn on the high plate voltage that would actually start the big transmitter. Eighty-six seconds after the final command left the earth, the signal strength from Pioneer V increased twentyfold. The big boy was on the line, calling loud and clear from Pioneer V as the probe continued on its lonely journey...
THREE-WAY MERGER TALKS are going on among New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, and Chesapeake & Ohio. Union of three would create a 25,000-mile, $4 billion empire, biggest in U.S. It would also be defensive move against merger being discussed between Norfolk & Western and Nickel Plate. N. & W. is one-third owned by Pennsylvania R.R., which is now biggest U.S. railroad...
...Committee breakfast in Cheyenne, Johnson rejected the support of party extremists, either of the Southern Bourbon right, or the Eastern A.D.A. left: "I would not want the support of extremists, and I would not be comfortable with it." Flying on to Salt Lake City, he addressed a $100-a-plate luncheon of 38 local businessmen (half of them Republicans). "If political victory requires that the Negro always be reminded that he is a Negro, the Catholic that he is a Catholic, the Jew that he is a Jew, the Mormon that he is a Mormon-and the Texan that...
...tragic slum, a thriving, neon-trimmed Main Street, a sparkling and earsplitting nightclub. It is the homesick croon of a West Indian immigrant, the glint of a switchblade in a teen-age rumble, the patient prayers of the hardworking faithful, the clink of pennies in a revivalist's plate. Harlem has mothered a strange and varied brood: Bojangles Robinson, tap-dancing down Broadway; Sugar Ray Robinson in a fuchsia Cadillac; Josephine Baker in a banana-laden G-string; pro-Communist Vito Marcantonio, haranguing a street-corner crowd; Father Divine in his special heavens, and-most recently-Adam Clayton Powell...