Word: governor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia, proposed that the entire Virginia public school system should be put on a four-quarter program much like that which had been tried with little success in Aliquippa, Ambridge, and Fort Worth. The plan, which had met with great parental disapproval, was shelved when the segregation crisis occurred, and there is little prospect that it will be revived. Despite its failure, the Virginia proposal represents one of the first serious moves by a state system toward the full year school, and is memorable for that reason alone...
Because of the avowed importance of the New Hampshire Presidential primary, Christopher T. Bayley '60, president of the Harvard Young Republican Club, and three other members polled approximately 100 persons each in` Keene, Concord, Manchester, and Nashua to determine what effects the recent visits of Nixon and Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York to New Hampshire have had upon its voters...
...Governor, decided to put a high gloss on her second tongue. At Manhattan's Columbia University School of General Studies, Mia plunged into an intermediate English course for foreign students, four one-hour classes a week...
Brought up in the same tenement, one boy ends in the electric chair, another in the governor's mansion. Why? For more than three decades, the mystery has been probed by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck, Harvard Law School's famed husband-and-wife criminologist team. The Glueck (rhymes with look) team has published three near classics on the subject: 500 Criminal Careers, One Thousand Juvenile Delinquents, Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency. Last week the Gluecks published their latest study: Predicting Delinquency and Crime (Harvard University; $6.50). Its startling premise: criminal behavior can be forecast almost as accurately as an insurance...
James Stillman Rockefeller, 57, president of First National City Bank of New York, was appointed chairman of the board succeeding Howard C. Sheperd, who retires Nov. 1 at 65. A grandnephew of John D. Rockefeller Sr. and second cousin of New York's Governor, the new chairman bosses the nation's third largest bank (first: Bank of America, second: Chase Manhattan). A grandson of James Stillman, president of National City from 1891 to 1909, Rockefeller captained Yale's 1924 crew, spurred it to victory in that year's Olympic Games. Married in 1925 to a grandniece...