Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picked a better year to play David. The late Representative William Green's once-smooth Philadelphia organization had turned increasingly fractious under Democratic City Chairman Francis Smith. It broke down when it backed State Senator Robert Casey, 34, a Scranton attorney, for the gubernatorial nomination. Shapp, guided by Joseph Napolitan, a J.F.K. pollster in 1960, mercilessly-derided Casey and exalted his own independence by calling himself "the man against the machine...
...Series. Shapp's reformist zeal led to the derisive nickname of "Batman"-but many voters thought a crusader, caped or not, was just what Pennsylvania's tired Democratic Party needed. With the returns in, Democratic Senator Joseph Clark, who had backed Casey, admitted that the machine was "obsolescent, if not obsolete." Shapp, the first Jew to be nominated for Governor of Pennsylvania, was already gearing up for November. "We've won the pennant," he told supporters. "Now we go after the World Series...
City Manager Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, completely rejected the possibility of all-night crosswalk crews. "I'm not going to risk a couple of men to people coming back from a party." DeGuglielmo said. "They can't even see the street, much less the crews...
...even hide there any more, pal - at least not at the University of Pennsylvania. John McGinn, an old Penn coxswain and now a scientist in General Electric's laboratories at Valley Forge, Pa., has invented an electronic gizmo that enables Penn Coach Joseph Burk to tell at a glance in practice which of his oarsmen are pulling their weight - and which aren't. Attached to the oarlocks, miniature dynamometers measure the pull on each oar, flash the results on a board of 32 lights - four for each crewman. If all four lights flash on, the oarsman is exerting...
...book approved for use in U.S. Catholic churches, about two-thirds are of Protestant origin. Some Catholic musicologists are experimenting with Anglican plain chant to accompany the texts used at High Mass, while many Protestant churches have adopted the simple melodic settings of the Psalms composed by French Jesuit Joseph Gelineau. Men of both faiths are jointly exploring the liturgical use of new artistic forms such as sacred dance...