Word: hard-rocking
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...Lawrence's heart be longed to Adlai Stevenson. Early in the game his mind took him toward Symington because he thought that Jack Kennedy's Catholicism would be a drag on the state ticket in Pennsylvania?where Catholic Dave Lawrence himself had barely squeaked by in 1958. But even hard-rock Pennsylvania was irresistibly being engulfed by the Kennedy wave. Philadelphia's Bill Green, No. 2 boss in the delegation, let it be known that he was for Kennedy. One of Jack Kennedy's first acts on landing in Los Angeles was to dodge through the dim halls...
...student loans but no undergraduate scholarships, although Alabama's Senator Lister Hill had asked for 40,000 scholarships, Alabama's Representative Carl Elliott 23,000 and President Eisenhower 10,000. But its passage was a clear victory for Sponsors Hill and Elliott and a sore defeat for hard-rock states-righters, especially Senator William E. Jenner, who doggedly defended the manger with a motion excluding Indiana from all benefits. In four days of hard haggling, Senate-House conferees laughed off Jenner's antics, slowly worked out a bill that gave the Senate, which had little to trade...
...cropper in 1931 when his widow telegraphed Montana's governor that the winning model of the seven submitted in a competition for a statue was "unlike the real Charlie Russell." World War II halted a second effort. Meantime, Charlie's friends and admirers -including just about every hard-rock miner, drive-in carhop and state legislator in the Treasure State-dug into their jeans for $75,000 to build a museum in Great Falls to house his works, anted up again to buy a collection of Russell paintings valued...
...convince oilmen of its treasures-is Frank M. McMahon, 54, chairman of Pacific Petroleums Ltd. and president of Westcoast Transmission, whose new 650-mile pipeline will start carrying gas this fall from the Peace River area to Vancouver and the U.S. border. The Canadian-born son of a wandering hard-rock miner, Oilman McMahon quit college to become a prospector himself, bounced from drilling rig to drilling rig until the 1940s, when he moved into the Peace River area above Edmonton in search of gas and oil. When the provincial government lifted leasehold restrictions on Peace River lands...
...authored a biography of Pope Pius XII, and finds time for relaxation with his attractive wife and five children. But like many an Irish boy brought up around the "Horseshoe" District of the late Frank Hague's sprawling, dirty Jersey City, Murray is a hard-rock politician at heart. Last week Jim Murray broke Hague Successor John V. Kenny's eight-year grip on Jersey City...