Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enthusiasts among his street-corner crowds and an Oklahoma-born cold that reduced his drawling dramatics to a-hoarse whisper. But the vice-presidential nominee and aides were hard put to ignore what they considered a pointed dig: the absence of New York Democratic bigwigs from the Syracuse-Rochester-Buffalo area when Kefauver made a one-day stand in upper New York state...
...Stephen Lichtenbaum. 17, who. along with Buffalo's David Krantz. now at Yale, made the highest score on the various N.M.S. tests. The son of a U.S. Treasury civil-service worker in Brooklyn. Stephen graduated top of his class from James Madison High School, won a Westinghouse Science Talent award for a problem involving the theory of numbers. His major at Harvard: mathematics, though he may switch to theoretical physics...
...Martin Co., the firm was listed in the phone book under "Amusements." Working with such other aviation pioneers as Martin, Fred Rentschler and Donald Douglas Sr., Planemaker Bell helped change the joke into one of the world's greatest industries. By 1935 he had his own company in Buffalo...
...able, energetic President Les Faneuf, who started as Bell's special assistant 13 years ago after a rainbow career as everything from commandant of a military academy to political editor of the Buffalo Times, Bell has the kind of imaginative, production-wise executive the company needs in order to grow. But, says Chairman Bell: "No matter where I am, when an airplane flies overhead, I'm going to go outside and look at it. I don't think I'll ever get over that...
...trouble; a $7,500,000 flood-damage bill and heavy losses from its commuters (who fondly call it the "Delay, Linger & Wait," but appreciate its on-time trains) helped drag the road to a $1,000,000 deficit last year. But its freight business between New Jersey and Buffalo is so good that the Lackawanna will climb back into the black...