Word: generale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rockefeller whirled through seven states in seven days. Purpose of the expedition to Indiana, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Texas and Florida: to test the political climate in the heartland before deciding early next month whether to make the race against Vice President Richard Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination. General finding: predictable coolness from the professionals, enough spontaneous warmth from amateurs and scattered Nixon dissidents to convince an energetic, personable Nelson Rockefeller that he might have a chance in the primaries if the voters could know him better...
...Christmas party given by the Nixons, New York Lawyer Thomas E. Dewey, a surprise guest, turned up jauntily, mingled with the high-ranking guests, and started tongues wagging. Afterward, Dewey and Mrs. Dewey were widely noted guests at dinner in the Statler Hilton Hotel, with the Nixons and Attorney General Bill Rogers and his wife. And on Saturday, despite chilling temperatures, Dewey and Nixon played golf together at Burning Tree...
...District Court, a jury found 20 of Barbara's racketeer-guests guilty of conspiring to obstruct justice by lying to grand juries about their reasons for coming to Apalachin.* Facing them in mid-January: maximum sentences of five years and/or $10,000 fines. In what U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers hailed as a "landmark" verdict, the Government in an ingeniously based prosecution won its biggest courtroom victory against organized crime since the conviction of Al Capone. For without proving that the defendants had assembled for a "crime convention," youthful (36) Special U.S. Prosecutor Milton Wessel convinced the jury...
...demand. Transitron quickly jumped to $49 per share in over-the-counter trading, closed the week at $43 per share. To Transitron's owners, David and Leo Bakalar. went $34.4 million for part of their interest in the third largest U.S. semiconductor producer (first: Texas Instruments Inc.; second: General Electric Co.). The Bakalar brothers still personally hold 6.4 million shares, almost evenly distributed between them. Their total worth, based on last week's market price: $311 million...
...Gray, 65, who will become chairman. Pittsburgh-born Logan Johnston started in the steel industry in 1925 as a salesman for Columbia Steel Co. of Butler, Pa., joined Armco in 1927 when Columbia was merged with it, has made a career selling steel. He was named Armco's general manager of sales in 1947, a vice president in 1952 and executive vice president in 1958. As president, Johnston is expected to press product variety, which has made Armco fourth in the industry in sales and profits although it ranks eighth in capacity. ¶John Clark Jr.. 44, will...