Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voting a historic off-year election. Gary, Ind., a northern bastion of the Ku Klux Klan 40 years ago, also elected a Negro, Richard Hatcher, 34, as its mayor. As in Cleveland, white votes supplied the crucial margin. In Boston, a coalition of white and Negro voters chose moderate Mayoral Candidate Kevin Hagan White over Louise Day Hicks, who had become a totem of opposition to school integration...
...year went back home to Western Reserve University. He was still undecided as to a career-psychology and the ministry were possibilities-when in 1948 he became chauffeur to a political organizer in Frank Lausche's gubernatorial campaign. After Lausche won, Stokes was offered a state job and chose to be a liquor inspector. He was a tough one. In his first case, a lone foray against an unlicensed saloon, the tough barkeep and customers laughed in his scrawny face (he then weighed only 150 Ibs.). Stokes pistol-whipped the bartender into submission. Later, in a shoot-out with...
...irreverent underground slogan: "Half an Oaf Is Better than Nunn." Republican Candidate Louie B. Nunn, 43, a back-country lawyer who in years past managed the successful senatorial campaigns of John Sherman Cooper and Thruston Morton, countered with his own vaguely punny slogan: "Tired of War? Vote Nunn." Kentuckians chose Nunn. Defeating Democrat Henry Ward, 58, a former highway commissioner handpicked by retiring Governor Edward Breathitt, Nunn became the first Republican Governor elected in Kentucky since...
Formal Entry. As winner of the basic-research award, jurors chose Dr. Bernard B. Brodie, 58, chief of the chemical pharmacology laboratory at the National Heart Institute in Bethesda, Md., whose work has had the effect of upgrading the usefulness of animals as test patients for new drugs. Because different animal species utilize drugs at vastly unequal rates, scientists could apply experimental lab animal results to human patients only in limited ways. But Brodie found that if dosages were gauged to produce comparable levels in the blood plasma, there was less variation in the effects...
After protracted, secrecy-shrouded deliberations, the company chose as Chambers' successor Sir Peter Allen, 62, one of four I.C.I. deputy chairmen. Allen promptly promised that he will bring "no abrupt-or even, for that matter, gentle-changes of policy...