Word: wright
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Died. Roy Knabenshue, 83, aviation pioneer, member of the famed "Early Birds" (among others: Orville Wright, Igor Sikorsky, Glenn Martin), first to fly (in 1904) a motor-controlled airship in the U.S.; in Los Angeles...
...Georgia case before the Supreme Court, jubilantly said the court's decision proved that the Civil Rights Act "is a firm foundation for further congressional action." Relying on its Georgia decision in another voting case, the court unanimously affirmed the order of Louisiana U.S. District Judge J. Skelly Wright that the names of 1,377 Negroes be restored to the voting rolls of Washington Parish. Names of 85% of the parish's Negro voters, Louisiana-born Judge Wright found, had been "purged" by Citizens Council records ferrets for a variety of niggling reasons, but white voting records were...
Severest test of the drug's powers was made by Houston's Dr. John Kinross-Wright on state prisoners at Huntsville, Texas. Patients treated there, he reported, were "classical psychopathic personalities with lifelong histories of antisocial behavior." In the penitentiary they were mutilating themselves, setting fires and starting fights. On Librium most of them became "placid and alert, despite their tension-provoking environment...
Monroney campaigned to reorient MATS not only to stop it from muscling in on the airlines but to improve its damaged military effectiveness. He charged that obsolescence had all but crippled MATS' 455-plane air fleet; two months ago MATS was forced to ground all its Wright Turbo Compound-powered Constellations because of maintenance problems, and it has kept its C124 Globe-masters in service only by cannibalizing disabled ships. MATS is in such sad shape that it will have to charter several dozen commercial aircraft for the airlift of 20,000 soldiers to next month's Army...
Most bright new comets in the architectural sky soon settle into orbit around such suns as the late Frank Lloyd Wright, Chicago's Mies van der Rohe or France's Le Corbusier. It is a rare one that grows to be a force in his own right. For architectural stargazers, the most exciting new arrival is crew-cut Paul Rudolph, 41, who two years ago was appointed chairman of Yale's department of architecture, and is already beginning to collect a few satellites...