Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tide had set in and John Bricker could not stop it. In midweek, Connecticut's Republican Prescott Bush, one of the amendment's 64 original sponsors, publicly announced a change of mind, indicated he would vote against it. Five others admitted privately to the same change of position. Bricker could no longer count on the necessary two-thirds majority...
...Roman Catholic chapel, to be known as "Our Lady of the Skies." ¶ Accepting a "Citizen of the Year" award from the Jewish War Veterans in Hartford, Conn., former Mayor Thomas J. Spellacy, 73, a leading Roman Catholic layman, called attention to a long-forgotten fact: in 1814 the Connecticut state legislature took over a $20,000 fund belonging to the Episcopal Church and never paid it back. The Episcopal bishop of Connecticut, the Rt. Rev. Walter Gray, thanked Spellacy for pointing out the possible .windfall, and promised that the Catholic Church would get a share of whatever the Episcopalians...
...thin patch of pines at Kobe Sound, Fla., 25 miles north of Palm Beach, passers-by gaped last week at two odd-looking "bubble houses," the first built from designs by Connecticut Architect Eliot Noyes (TIME, June 22). Built around large nylon and rubber bubbles, reinforced with wire and then sprayed with two coats of concrete (called shot crete), the houses can withstand winds of 125 m.p.h., are sealed against the hordes of insects found in warm climates. Inside, partitions reach up just to the curve of the ceiling; only the bathroom is enclosed, with Fiberglas. The four-room...
Western Maryland heads the list of the four major undefeated fives with a record of 16-0. Duquesne, 15-0, ranks second, Connecticut, which ranks no. 21 in the country, third with 14-0, and Kentucky, which has an 11-0 record...
When Fair Dealer Chester Bowles, onetime ad-agency tycoon, onetime OPA administrator and ex-governor of Connecticut, asked Harry Truman for the ambassadorship to India, he let himself in for some unexpected complications. Spending their first night on Indian soil, Bowles, his wife and their three younger children huddled together in one room of Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel, awed and made uncomfortable by the five barn-sized rooms of the viceroy suite, in which their attendants had distributed them. Bowles faced his first formal call on President Rajendra