Word: 55th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasionally as an adviser. California Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch (Health, Education and Welfare) is an old friend, campaign aide and confidant. In fact, Finch is matched in the boss's esteem only by William Pierce Rogers, Attorney General in the Eisenhower Administration, whom Nixon selected to become the 55th Secretary of State and Keeper of the Great Seal of the United States. Over the years, Nixon has reserved his friendship for few men. With intimates like Finch, Mitchell and Rogers heading major departments, what in other Administrations would serve as a Kitchen Cabinet will be officially installed...
Shoulder to shoulder at some points, charging the mob at intervals, massed police cleared the avenue after two hours of melee that surged between 55th and 42nd streets. In its aftermath, Sixth Avenue was littered with debris...
...virtue of the congressional seniority system, the hardworking, clear-thinking Arizonan-who recently celebrated his 55th anniversary* on Capitol Hill-occupies three of the most venerable and strategic posts in the Senate: president pro tem, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, dispenser of Democratic patronage. With little more than a nod, he can-and often has-secured federal funds and projects for the arid sections of the West, particularly his own state. Notes one Senate veteran: "He can do more for Arizona in three months than his successor will be able to do in ten years...
...Legal Aid Society, which provides free legal aid to indigents involved in civil cases, last week approved a plan to consider for membership all law students who volunteer for the Legal Aid summer program. At present, Legal Aid membership is open only to students who ranked above 55th in their first year law class...
Harvard may have been outclassed, but the harriers would certainly have finished higher if Bob Stempson had performed as well as he did in the Heps: Stempson placed 55th yesterday in 26:24. Last week he ran 25:48, which would have put him 27th and would have moved the Crimson to fourth...