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Died. Odie R. Seagraves, 83, big-time wheeler-dealer, even by Texas standards; by defenestration; from an eighth-floor hotel room; in Dallas. Seagraves spent his life putting together deals, borrowing millions to make millions, then trading it all to cover overborrowing on other deals. By 1929 he had made and lost $20 million in natural gas speculation, subsequently ran up fortunes in oil and sulphur. But in the end he lost it all (an estimated $150 million), and died virtually broke...
...attacked the "royal mess" in a local school system. Then Turner charged that unnecessary delays in the county probate court were caused by "not having a well and healthy judge." (The judge resigned within weeks.) But Turner's prime target quickly became the most powerful lawyer and wheeler-dealer in the county: Martin J. Lavan...
...reply, councillors Cornelia B. Wheeler and Thomas H. D. Mahoney said that the new council could ask for any amendments it wanted when the state legislature holds hearings on Cambridge's request for enabling legislation...
Last summer, however, perhaps feeling overly buoyant about his good national press, Agnew began lobbying clumsily for Administration programs. He started with the ABM, buttonholing members on the Senate floor, then repeated the mistake in an attempt to get the income-tax surcharge extended for a year. As a wheeler-dealer, he failed ingloriously and provoked a curt civics lesson from Majority Leader Mike Mansfield: "A Vice President should not interfere in Senate affairs regardless of his party. He is not a member of the Senate. He's a half-creature of the Senate and a half-creature...
...said in Commonwealth v. Wheeler, . . . 'a physician may lawfully procure the abortion of a patient if in good faith he believes it to be necessary to save her life or to prevent serious impairment of her health, mental or physical, and if his judgment corresponds with the general opinion of competent practitioners in the community in which he practices...