Word: donald
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Connecticut's only Republican Congressman, Abner Sibal, lost narrowly to the lawyer he had beaten in 1960, Donald J. Irwin. Four New Jersey Democrats defeated Republican incumbents, giving that state its first Democratic congressional majority (eleven seats to four) in 52 years. Louisville's former Democratic Mayor Charles Farnsley, a lanky eccentric who affects custom-made ante bellum clothes but is nevertheless a popular middle-reader, unseated Republican Incumbent Gene Snyder, who angered the district's 78.000 Negroes by voting against the civil rights bill. Across the nation, a dozen other conservative Republicans also toppled. Among them...
Five seniors have been nominated for Danforth Graduate Fellowships by fessor of the Civilization of France Laurence Wylie, C. Douglas Dillon Pro-and Danforth Liaison Officer for the College. The are Peter M. Briggs, Donald G. Marshall, Miles Morgan, Henry F. Smith III, and Peter W. Williams...
...DONALD F. DREISBACH Evanston...
...American soldiers became ill with scarlet fever or related strep infections. Mrs. Lancefield, who got her master's at the time and began working for her doctorate in microbiology at Columbia University, had no trouble finding a problem on which to concentrate. Encouraged by her husband, Geneticist Donald E. Lancefield, she became one of the first bacteriologists to recognize that the streptococci are an appallingly complex group of microbes. She spent a decade in the laboratory, painstakingly classifying different strains of streptococci according to the poisons they produce. By 1928 she was ready to report that the bugs that...
...kaleidoscopic economy, but Westinghouse's sales in recent years have been stagnant and its profits falling. Like the dinosaur, the company became too big, too contented and too slow-moving to change with changing conditions. It badly needed a prod-and it got a powerful one in Donald Clemens Burnham, who took over as president 15 months ago after six years as manufacturing vice president. Even Burnham, 49, professes surprise at what he has been able to do. Sales rose 6.2% and profits 30% in this year's first nine months, and this week Burnham presents even better...