Word: inde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clouds of grey smoke rose from hot-fat cookers on the floodlit high-school football field in Rochester, Ind. (pop. 5,000) as "Charley Halleck Day" sizzled to a close with an old-fashioned fish fry. Heading the well-wishers of Republican House Leader Halleck on his silver anniversary in Congress was touring Vice President Richard M. Nixon. At the flag-draped rostrum, facing 15,000 Hoosiers brimful of yellow perch and Republican politics, Nixon, after saluting Halleck, the crowd and the perch, said: "Now, I want to relate the international situation to this meeting we're having...
...nervous just sitting around," grumbled a striking steelworker in East Chicago, Ind. last week. "I wish I could grab the guys on both sides of that table and bang their heads together...
...Thomas Elbert Sunderland, 52, vice president and general counsel of Standard Oil Co. (Ind.), was named president and chief executive officer of the trouble-torn United Fruit Co., succeeding Kenneth H. Redmond, 64, retiring after 42 years with the company. Sunderland, who admits he "knows nothing about bananas," is an expert in the antitrust problems that plague United Fruit; under a 1958 antitrust decree, United Fruit must sell off some of its properties, give up 35% of its import business. A Michigan-born lawyer, Sunderland saw World War II service in the Army Air Forces, became a Standard director...
...Chicago Teamster local. In 1956, when Ricca was in trouble with the law and needed money urgently, Hoffa's own Local 299 and another Detroit local headed by Hoffa Pal Bert Brennan, now a Teamsters international vice president, jointly purchased Ricca's home in Long Beach, Ind. for $150,000. Appraised value: $85,000. Hoffa explained that the two locals planned to turn the house into a training school for Teamster business agents. Not one has been trained there...
...Battle Ground. Marine Shoup was born in Battle Ground, Ind. (pop. 640), so named because it was there, in 1811, that General William Henry Harrison defeated Tecumseh's Indians in the battle of Tippecanoe. A farmer's son, he worked his way through nearby DePauw University, graduated ('26) as an "A" student with an ROTC Army commission, switched to the Marines. He married his childhood sweetheart, Zola De Haven (they have two grown children), stood peacetime duty on a dozen posts from Peiping to Iceland. In World War II he saw combat on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Saipan...