Word: cleveland
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Died. Richard F. Cleveland, 76, eldest son of Democratic President Grover Cleveland and a prominent Maryland attorney; in Baltimore. Cleveland, who represented Whittaker Chambers in the libel suit brought by Alger Hiss, was active in the presidential campaigns of one Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and three Republicans, Alfred Landon, Wendell Willkie and Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...only a 17-year-old errand boy to John D. Rockefeller when he became convinced of Russia's industrial potential. So as Canadian-born, Cleveland-based Cyrus Eaton made and remade several industrial fortunes in steel, railroads and rubber over the years, he also worked for détente between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.: traveling behind the Iron Curtain, playing host to Russian leaders when they visited the U.S., proposing trade deals and in 1957 assembling at his original home in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, one of the first international scientific conferences to discuss the dangers of nuclear disaster...
BRAHMS: COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS, OP. 51, NOS. 1 AND 2, OP. 67 (RCA, 2 LPs). Another impressive disc debut, this one by the Cleveland Quartet...
Personal Quarrel. This week a federal grand jury will be empaneled in Cleveland to look into the killings. The Justice Department took that step because of "information" that it "developed" in a recent informal inquiry. Justice officials decline to elaborate and stress that they are not seeking indictments at this stage. Yet in the grand jury hearings they will surely ask who fired the first shot and why-and whether there was a conspiracy among the Guardsmen to shoot the students. U.S. attorneys will also introduce to the jury important evidence that was never seen by the original Ohio panel...
...spate of National Football League records and powering the Buffalo Bills to a 34-14 victory over the New York Jets yesterday. Simpson carried 34 times against the helpless Jets, giving him a season total of 332 carries. Both his total yardage and total carries bettered records by Cleveland's former star fullback, Jim Brown...