Word: cooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...onetime Chicago alderman. Illinois Democrat Otto Kerner, 53, never really developed much stomach for rough-and-tumble politics. "I've never been a ward leader or a county leader, and I'm not interested." he says. Elected Governor in 1960 on his record as a Cook County judge. Kerner began putting off state problems by appointing committees to study them. This summer his procrastination has come home to plague him: Illinois is in the worst fiscal mess since the Depression...
...general fund, have been running some $4,000,000 a month above their allotment. Kerner wryly concedes that this cut maybe "politically unpopular." "Indefensible." It is indeed. "To single out public aid as the goat in the state's financial crisis is indefensible," cried Raymond Hilliard. Cook County public aid director. "The cuts hurt the people who have the least." Even Kerner's political sponsor, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, was unhappy, since two-thirds of the reliefers live in Cook County. Said he: "Anyone who makes relief a political issue had better be pretty careful...
...numbers from Broadway musicals and the transistor hit parade are added each week. The source of Macy's supply is the Q.R.S. Co. in The Bronx. Lone survivor of the once more than 50 U.S. roll makers, Q.R.S. sees brighter days ahead. Its artist-in-residence, J. Lawrence Cook, turns out the rolls by playing on a special piano rigged to a device like an IBM machine, which punches the proper holes in a master roll. Then the master roll is placed on the production perforator, which can punch out more than 30 finished rolls at a time...
Commented Robert C. Cook, president of the Population Reference Bureau: "Today, more women marry in their 18th year than in any other; more have their first child in their 19th year than in any other...
...They will dazzle the naked eye like glimpses of the sun, doing no permanent damage; but the AEC warns that it will be extremely dangerous to look at the lofty explosions with binoculars or telescopes. Concentrated on the eye's retina, the light will be strong enough to cook a fair-sized blind spot...