Word: nine
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...with him and became Parks Commissioner. But his alliance with Kenny was short-lived. In 1950 the elder Murray defied the boss, backed son Jim for Congress. For this insubordination Kenny stripped Murray of power, put him in charge of Jersey City's one public bath and its nine employees. Then Kenny canceled out the younger Murray with an obscure candidate also named James Murray Jr. (no middle initial), sent his own man to Congress. Young Jim F. Murray Jr. ran as a maverick for the state senate...
...foreign affairs, defense and money matters), the Cameroons became something called a "State Under Trusteeship." Last week ambitious and outspoken Andre-Marie Mbida,.an ardently anti-Communist Cameroonian tribesman who once studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood, took over as Premier, with a Cabinet of whom eight out of nine are blacks. As his first official act, Mbida gave France's Overseas Minister a shiny new Cameroon medal...
Italy's hell-for-rubber Piero Taruffi, 50, the "Old Fox" and winner of the goriest Mille Miglia road race, which brought death to Spain's Marquis de Portage, two other drivers and nine spectators (TIME, May 20), decided to leave his profession alive. "I have sworn to my wife Isabella that I will never race again," said he solemnly. "Roads have become insufficient in the face of mechanical progress. It is impossible to guarantee the safety of spectators...
Long before the crusade began, the personal counseling staff signed up 4,000 applicants in eleven centers throughout the city for a nine-week course in Scripture, how to apply Bible lessons, how to handle people's problems. (Among the carefully drawn-up list of traits that disqualify applicants for counseling posts: "inability to communicate," argumentative or surly attitude, unkempt appearance, halitosis.) Of the applicants, 3,800 stuck the course to the end. 2,143 qualified as counselors, 350 were held in reserve. The counselors are Evangelist Graham's shock troops...
...other regulars, only Walt Stahura and John Getch broke .300. Stahura hit at a .309 clip and led the team with nine stolen bases. Getch amassed the second highest number of hits, 19, and batted .302. Bob Cleary narrowly missed the .300 bracket by two points...