Word: california
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Checking last spring on the 1960 presidential preferences of Republican voters, the Gallup poll found Vice President Richard Nixon the far-and-away leader, with 64% against only 9% for the runner-up, California's Senator William Knowland. Checking again last week, in the wake of the 1958 elections, the pollsters found a far more imposing Nixon roadblock in New York's Governor-elect Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller. The new listing...
...once, results followed form, and brought the New Year's Day Bowl picture into sharp focus. California edged past Stanford 16-15, to draw the unenviable Rose Bowl spot opposite Iowa. Louisiana State wiped out Tulane 62-0, accepted a bid to New Orleans' Sugar Bowl. Texas Christian dumped Rice 21-10, got the host spot in Dallas' Cotton Bowl. Syracuse had trouble beating West Virginia 15-12, was invited anyway to face Oklahoma in Miami's Orange Bowl. TIME...
...varsity in the U.S. But football players must compete for available financial aid on a strictly equal basis with all other students. Many of the best players get no help at all. Dartmouth's Coach Bob Blackman. reared in the high-pressure big time (University of Southern California), reports with a lingering trace of disbelief that in his four seasons at Dartmouth "none of our first-string quarterbacks have required or received scholarship help." In the Ivy League, explains Harvard's Coach John Yovicsin, "football is one of the most important extracurricular activities. Frankly, that's where...
Losses & Jets. Any settlement may take some time, since T.W.A., owned 78.2% by California's fabulous Howard Hughes, is in the worst financial shape of any major U.S. airline. On last year's balance sheet, the accountants listed a net loss of $1,600,000, despite a 9.7% jump in revenues to a record $263.7 million. For the first nine months this year, the loss is $1,800,000, although other major lines are well in the black. More important, T.W.A. has borrowed so heavily from banks and insurance companies that it has rigid restrictions...
...Christmas this year, Lockheed and most other planemakers, Continental Oil Co.. Diamond Alkali are mailing letters wishing one and all a very merry holiday, but please do not send any gifts to our employees. Boeing Airplane, U.S. Steel, California Packing, Cutter Laboratories, Morri-son-Knudsen Co. and Dresser Inc. have similar policies, though they do not send out a formal letter. Former General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice did not go that far in laying down a rule of thumb to guide his people but he did send around a memo that no G.M. man should accept a gift...