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Career & Training. Born and raised on a farm near Saratoga in eastern Indiana, "Cog" was one of two in the local high school's senior class. At Indiana University he waited on tables to help pay for his tuition in zoology, then got a Rockefeller Foundation job in malaria research. This gave him the idea that he needed an M.D. Back at Indiana U. he helped pay tuition by teaching physiology to prospective embalmers...
...devise strategy for evading the U.S. Supreme Court's school desegregation order, Virginia's Governor Thomas B. Stanley appointed a legislative commission headed by State Senator Garland Gray, a dependable cog in U.S. Senator Harry Byrd's Democratic Party organization. The Gray Commission hammered out a compromise designed to head off integration in communities that oppose it, and permit it in others. Even so, the plan was meeting unexpected opposition. Reason: quite apart from its cautious sabotage of the Supreme Court order, many Virginians thought the Gray plan might wreck their public-school system...
...Emerging Murderer. Having reconstructed the plane and the crime, the investigators set about reconstructing the criminal. The FBI turned loose some 200 agents on the case. Combing the crash area, the G-men found a cog from a clock that might have been the timing device on the bomb. Other agents interviewed relatives of the crash victims all over the U.S., carefully sifted through a hundred pasts for clues. Even before United Air Lines offered a $25,000 reward for information, tipsters began to come forward. Bit by bit, the figure of the murderer began to emerge. Last week...
...today is a cog in an immense industrial system," Siegfried stated. "In both the process and administration of production, technique has replaced thinking. The hugeness of industry makes it impossible for any one man to manage a corporation and the result has been control by an unthinking bureaucracy...
...Hungarian-born painter, illustrator and architectural designer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. With little formal training, Pogany became one of the most versatile artists of his day. Among his creations: murals for Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater; scenes, sets and costumes for the Metropolitan Opera's Cog d'Or; three 18-ft. stained-glass windows in Los Angeles' Forest Lawn Cemetery...