Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upset shrewd, tough Walter H. Jones, Republican leader of the state senate and the favorite of a fusty state Republican organization that has all but wrecked the once-powerful G.O.P. in New Jersey. In the last seven years, Jersey Republicans have watched haplessly while the rising Democratic tide elected Harrison ("Pete") Williams to the U.S. Senate in 1958, won control of the state assembly, put Robert Meyner in the Governor's mansion for two terms (the state constitution forbids him to run for a third), and gave New Jersey to John Kennedy last November by 22,000 votes...
...grey dawn of last fall's defeat, the Republican Party wrung its hands in anguished awareness of the fact that Jack Kennedy's 112,803-vote margin over Dick Nixon was the narrowest since the 1888 presidential race between Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland. Last week, turning from anguish to analysis, the Republican National Committee issued a statistic-studded report on the 1960 voting trends. Items...
...Kolodney (157), the only Harvard appler to make the semifinals, was deioned by Jim Harrison of Pitt, 6 to 4. olodney and four other varsity wrestlers ere eliminated from the tournament hen they lost their second matches...
Face the Nation (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). "The Migrant Farm Worker-Is Federal Legislation Necessary?" New Jersey's Senator Harrison Williams says yes. Charles P. Shuman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, disagrees...
...mind, Porgy and Bess was only an interlude: she still wanted a career in grand opera, and she started on that road by giving her first serious recital at Town Hall in the fall of 1954. The critics were enthusiastic, especially the Herald Tribune's Jay Harrison, who detected "a goddess performing among us." She has spent six seasons singing on the Community Concert circuit and in 1955 broke into opera as the lead in the NBC Tosca. Casting a Negro in the role, says Leontyne composedly, "created quite a rumpus, but it was a successful rumpus...