Word: jr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dramatic-but curiously unconvincing-gesture toward suicide. The janitor at the jail in Poplarville, questioned by agents, swallowed a nauseating dose of toilet-bowl cleaner. Farmer C.C. ("Crip") Reyer, 42, whose car looked like one seen at the jail, entered a hospital with a "nervous breakdown." Farmer Arthur Smith Jr., 32, went to a hospital with a "cerebral hemorrhage," which his doctor said was brought on by the strain of FBI questions. Smith later turned out to have suffered no hemorrhage...
Jones's difficulties began when he and State Parks Director J. W. Brinson Jr. were questioned about an apparent $4,650 overcharge on the state purchase of gardening machinery. Jones got to Jury Foreman Edward Westlake, 39, and proposed a $100,000 payment for hamstringing that and other investigations. Westlake refused, reported the offer to State Solicitor General Paul Webb. At Webb's urging, Westlake got in touch with Jones again, hinted at a change of heart. Meeting at an Atlanta tree nursery, the two agreed on a $10,000 price tag on the single charge against Jones...
...hazards of plain water, which they will not find on any lunar expedition but might encounter on their return to earth. The space pioneers, learning how to cope with an impromptu dunking in underwater-survival school at a Navy base in Norfolk: Air Force Captain Leroy G. Cooper Jr., 32, Navy Lieut. Commander Walter M. Schirra Jr., 36, Navy Lieut. Malcolm S. Carpenter, 33, Navy Lieut. Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr., 35, Air Force Captain Donald K. Slayton, 35, Marine Lieut. Colonel John H. Glenn Jr., 37, Air Force Captain Virgil I. Grissom...
...Force Brigadier General Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr., 46, son of the Army's first Negro general officer, was nominated by Dwight Eisenhower for promotion to two-star rank. As a major general, poker-backed West Pointer Davis, now deputy chief of staff at Air Force advance headquarters in West Germany, would become the highest-ranking Negro in U.S. armed forces annals...
...University, he is close to a doctor's degree in advanced mathematics at M.I.T., where his grades average 4.9 out of a possible 5. In his spare time Student Slagle works as a staff mathematician at M.I.T.'s famed Lincoln Laboratory. ¶ Robert J. Winn Jr., 23, of Dallas, began to lose his vision at the age of six. He is about to receive a B.S. at North Texas State College, has had eleven A's and one B in the last three semesters. Winn is president of the 7,000-member student body, also wrestles, swims...