Word: kean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third Crimson sweep came in the high jump, where John deKiewiet, Bob Downs, and Cal Kean finished in a three-way tie for first at 6 feet, 2 inches. In the hammer, John DuMoulin and Jim Doty both far exceeded their best throws of the season to take first and second. DuMoulin threw 178 feet, 2 inches, and Doty 171 feet, 51/2 inches...
...Enemies. In November, Williams will be up against ten-term Congressman Robert Winthrop Kean (rhymes with pane), 64, the Republican winner. On the strength of a 40,000-vote plurality in Essex and Union Counties, Kean won by 24,000 votes over President Eisenhower's onetime appointments secretary, Bernard Shanley, who had strong G.O.P. machine endorsement. Trailing as a poor third: sometime (on and off between 1951 and 1958) Senate Internal Security Subcommittee Counsel Robert Morris, vehement anti-Communist and G.O.P. right-winger...
Republican Kean is favored in the general election despite Democratic tides and anti-Republican recession rumbles. During 20 years in Congress, he has made few New Jersey enemies, won friends in both business and labor as a liberal but cautious tax expert, social security advocate and fighter for such Administration measures as reciprocal trade and foreign aid. Meyner Man Williams, nominated without Hudson County in the primary, needs a whopping Democratic vote from Hudson County to overcome a G.O.P. opponent in nominally Republican New Jersey. But Pete Williams' hopes are high, since he knows the unexpected power...
...liberal Protestant Christian Century headed its editorial page last week with a blast from the Rev. Charles Duell Kean of Washington's Episcopal Church of the Epiphany against the U.S. Navy for attaching a St. Christopher medal to its successful Vanguard satellite-bearing rocket. "Would it have served just as well." demanded Dr. Kean, "if along with the countdown routine, a man had been assigned at each stage in the process to cross his fingers and say 'Muggles'? Had anyone thought of attaching a four-leaf clover to the missile somewhere? The fact that a symbol...
...House Ways and Means Committee to co-sponsor the Administration bill, the White House had to reach past three ardent Republican protectionists-New York's Daniel Reed. Ohio's Thomas Jenkins, Pennsylvania's Richard Simpson-to trap the fourth-ranking Republican, New Jersey's Robert Kean, and he was far from eager...