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Instead, after a brief behind-the-scenes tussle between the Governors and the more conservative Capitol Hill leaders, the policy group decided in the interest of party unity to adopt a diplomatic resolution based on an earlier statement by National Committee Chairman Ray Bliss. It urged all Republicans to "reject membership in any radical or extremist organization, including any which attempts to use the Republican Party for its own ends or any which seeks to undermine the basic principles of American freedom and constitutional government...
Died. Major General Raymond W. Bliss, 77, former (1947-51) Army Surgeon General who, as his service's top medical officer, was instrumental in unifying the armed forces medical-supply system, pushed for higher fitness standards among draftees, and generally improved combat medical facilities to the point where he was able to report a Korean War death rate among wounded of just under 2% (vs. 4.5% in World War II); of complications from emphysema; in Tucson, Arizona...
...power failure also hit four military bases- Fort Bliss and Biggs Air Force Base in Texas, White Sands Missile Range and Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico- until emergency equipment cut in. The shutoff was traced to a malfunction in a regulator that feeds natural gas to the boilers in one of the company's two steam-powered generating plants. That plant was closed down, and the other shut itself off under the increased load. El Paso's red-faced Ray Lockhart hardly knew what to say. "It's unbelievable," he sputtered, "but it happened...
Last year, Harvard upset the Cadets in the medley relay and split the individual events, only to lose the freestyle races and the decisive final relay. Army won 49-46. But Army lost its magnificent sprinter, Tony Clay, and speedsters Jerry Merges and Steve Bliss, at graduation. Together, those three accounted for 24 points...
...sure He would provide something better and funnier for small folks to do-like sliding down waterfalls in the River of Life or letting my tree-climbing sister climb the Tree of Life. Now I am 77. My hope each evening is that I may have the bliss of falling forever into a deep, dreamless sleep. To me there is no lure in any imaginable sort of "eternal life." The greatest happiness I have ever enjoyed would pall into unspeakable boredom in vastly less than fourscore years, let alone "eternity...