Word: hymans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oratory earned him the honor of nominating Dwight Eisenhower at the Republican National Convention in 1952. Still McKeldin was the underdog. But the Republican candidate for city comptroller withdrew after a firm he once headed was found insolvent by the Baltimore Circuit Court. The G.O.P. filled the vacancy with Hyman Pressman, a Democrat who had switched tickets after los ing his own party's nomination for comptroller. Pressman, self-styled "watchdog'' of Baltimore's budget, is a perennial candidate for one office or another and, while never before a winner, he has a considerable following. Baltimore...
...LOUIS LEFKOWITZ, attorney general. He was a "liquor lawyer" before he took office in 1957, and his law associate, Hyman Siegel, still is. A tape recording made surreptitiously in an S.L.A. office (and published in LIFE) suggest that after Lefkowitz was gone he was not forgotten...
Even some of the few who refused have added nuggets to Randall's correspondence. When Admiral Hyman Rickover's secretary replied that the admiral never signed his name for anyone he did not know personally, Randall wrote right back, sending along a photograph of himself. (It didn't work.) He has kind notes from representatives of Jackie Kennedy, Charles de Gaulle, Albert Schweitzer and Winston Churchill saying that they are simply too busy to send autographs. When he tried to get Caryl Chessman's signature, however, he got only a steely note from an assistant warden...
...Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who has long directed his salty criticism at inadequate U.S. schools and at unimaginative military brass, last week zeroed in on U.S. business. Industry has fallen dangerously short of meeting the exacting technological standards of the nuclear age, said the father of the nuclear submarine to a meeting of the American Society for Metals...
...crew is as modern as the ship. Captain Raymond E. Peet, 41, an Annapolis graduate ('43) with a master of science degree from M.I.T., was one of the officers hand-picked and trained by Admiral Hyman Rickover to operate the nuclear Navy. During World War II, Peet was a gunnery officer in Admiral Arleigh Burke's famed "Little Beaver" squadron of destroyers in the Pacific. Later he was Burke's aide for two years, when the man who handled a destroyer like a hot-rod became Chief of Naval Operations. To get ready for the Bainbridge, Peet...