Word: indiana
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...Democratic primaries in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Maryland, Pettigrew points out, the news media emphasized the percentage of the Wallace vote without studying the size of the total vote. Actually, the votes in the primaries were considerably larger than is normal in Democratic primaries in those states. The "blacklash" then, was apparently caused by people voting who do not normally go to the polls. To call this vote a major shifting of opinion, Pettigrew said, is a "blatant fallacy...
...social security (he will now get $254). That is a higher-than-average amount for industry, but it is not so high as that paid by a handful of major companies. The oil companies, in general, are the most generous, and a 30-year man at Standard Oil of Indiana gets $343 a month. At Du Pont he gets $298, at Cities Service $297, at General Electric $266 and at A.T. & T. $224. The most generous major pensioner listed in a recent Government survey was Grumman Aircraft, whose 30-year, $400-a-month retiree can get as much...
Wilson kept on kicking. While board chairman at Standard of Indiana, he kicked a group of industrialists into starting a program of corporate support for private colleges and science graduate students. He kicked his own company into adopting Ethyl gasoline. And he then kicked himself into public service...
...also has a lively interest in sales, technology, law and government. He works at his job ten hours a day in his Manhattan office and another three hours at home, frequently tours his bailiwick; last week he was off on a Cook's tour of facilities in Indiana and Virginia. An ardent advocate of private power, he believes that cutting costs and passing the savings on to consumers is a form of public service. As it happens, he is also well connected in Washington...
Died. Robert Wilson, 71, former board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, administrator, inventor, scholar, and recently retired member of the Atomic Energy Commission; of a stroke; in Geneva (see SCIENCE...