Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outcome was a landslide for G.O.P. Candidate J. Kenneth Robinson, 49, a World War II infantry major and-like old Harry Byrd-an apple grower. Robinson rolled over Byrd-backed County Attorney Joseph A. Massie Jr. by 10,293 votes to 4,949, a better than 2-to-l margin, capturing a seat in an area that has been Democratic for years. His victory, concluded Robinson, "will encourage other Republicans to run for office. So many good candidates have thought that they have to run as Democrats...
...area of life, progress is likely to depend upon the initiative of an adventurous few. Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis and the Bishops of Oklahoma City-Tulsa and Wheeling have already announced plans to hold "Little Councils" in their own dioceses, in which laymen as well as priests and nuns will take part. Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing plans to establish lay councils in every parish...
Threatening Child. Koratron's founder, San Francisco Garment Maker Joseph Koret, came upon the permanent-crease process in 1956 while searching for a way to keep creases in the pleats of his women's sportswear. By coating fabrics with a resin solution and then baking them in 325° ovens, Koret's chemists found that they could "memorize" a crease into most kinds of material. As a result, 85% of men's slacks in the U.S. are now Koratron-treated, and the permanent crease is becoming a feature of everything from bathing trunks to blue jeans...
...only 15 when he graduated from Exeter, his parents decided to take him and his younger brother Tom (now a historian-researcher for the Colonial Williamsburg restoration project) on a yearlong tour of the world. On his return, he entered Harvard in the same class (1938) as the late Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., recalls him as a bright, amiable fellow who might have gone far in politics -but not so far as his brother John. Schlesinger made Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, seemed a cinch to win highest honors-until his final oral exam. "Since Arthur knew...
...Died. Joseph Ignatius Breen, 75, longtime (1934-54) arbiter of Hollywood's movie morals, who was hired by the Hays (later Johnston) Office to boss the industry's keep-it-clean Production Code, started out by telling producers, "I'm going to throw a helluva lot of your celluloid in the ashcan," which he did while offering such "suggestions" as "Eliminate the action of Spit actually expectorating," only once faced open revolt-when Howard Hughes in 1954 released The French Line without a Seal of Approval, thus earning a $25,000 fine; of a stroke; in West...