Word: jr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...catch his Sunday flashes for "Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea ..." Last week, with his syndication down to 100 papers and the radio program long since scratched, Walter Winchell, 71, announced his retirement. Still "shaken up" over the December suicide of his only son, Walter Jr., he has been vacationing in Paradise Valley, Ariz. Said he: "We've had a lot of heartaches. This is the time for me to step down...
Liberal fears that the new Republican Administration plans to let the states operate their schools unassisted and virtually as they please were emphatically laid to rest last week. For the job of U.S. Commissioner of Education, President Richard Nixon picked James E. Allen Jr., the tough-minded education commissioner of New York-a man who does not hesitate to wield his authority in order to bring about reforms in the schools...
...Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd applauded the idea of pretrial jailing of accused criminals thought likely to break the law while out on bail. "Unless we have a safe society," said Byrd, "we are not going to have a free society." But North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin Jr., a member of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee and usually no supporter of libertarian causes, was incensed. Preventive detention, he said, is "inconsistent with a free society...
Died. Conrad ("Nicky") Hilton Jr., 42, a director of his father's 41-nation hotel chain and inveterate playboy, who in 1950 became the first husband of an 18-year-old super-starlet named Elizabeth Taylor, was divorced by her after nine months and later remarried only once; of a heart attack; in West Los Angeles, Calif...
...when it was slowed by a 49-day strike. Struggling American Motors earned $11.8 million during the fiscal year ending last September, its first full-year profit since 1965. The performance was helped by tax credits and the sale of the unprofitable Kelvinator Division. Chairman Roy D. Chapin Jr. announced last week that A.M.C. will aim for annual auto sales of 500,000 by the early 1970s, nearly double the present level...