Word: clifford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...membership is required to cut off filibusters. Humphrey & Co. propose to change the rules so that a simple (i.e., non-Southern) majority can shut off debate. New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives, who is up for re-election in 1958, and New Jersey's Republican Senator Clifford Case found it difficult to resist. In a slow political week, they too added their names to the list of cloture sponsors...
...Democratic Senators, led by Hubert H. Humphrey (Minn.) and Paul Douglas (Ill.), initiated this newest attempt to revise Rule XXII. The six northern Democratic liberals were joined recently by two Eastern Republicans, Irving Ives (N.Y.) and Clifford Case...
...been angling unsuccessfully for a federal job since 1952, was a possibility-an idea that brought shudders to liberal Republicans. Other possibilities: ex-Governor Horace A. Hildreth, 53, now U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan; University of Maine President Arthur Hauck, 63, a staunch Eisenhower supporter; and Congressman Clifford Mclntire, the only Republican Representative from Maine to be re-elected by a comfortable margin this year (one was defeated, one squeaked through). Whoever gets the nomination will probably have to go up against popular Democratic Governor Edmund S. Muskie, 42, who won re-election last September in a landslide...
...Died. Clifford Mooers, 67, horse breeder and onetime Alaska gold prospector, dirt-track auto racer, World War I flyer, lawyer and oil wildcatter, who settled down to horse racing after his wells started to gush, hit the big time fast (1949) when his Old Rockport went to post at 33 to 1, copped the $141,800 Santa Anita Derby; between planes at New York's LaGuardia Field, en route from Kentucky to Pawtucket. R.I., to see one of his horses at Narragansett Park...
...blind to "see" by sound or touch, but none has come into widespread use. They are generally too complicated, heavy, expensive or conspicuous. Dunn Engineering Associates, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass, is demonstrating a small, simple, inconspicuous device that may have more practical appeal. Its designer, the late Dr. Clifford Martin Witcher of M.I.T., was blind himself...