Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delivery of linseed oil to New York and was hauling his tanker back to Philadelphia. Roscoe Poe's driving history was pock-marked with traffic violations and convictions: in the past five years, he had committed at least seven moving violations (speeding, passing red lights, etc.) in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. But there he was, still driving-and driving a truck with bad brakes...
Yovicsin might have liked a quiet dinner at home with his wife and four children--"at least, as quiet as it can get with four children," he remarks--but the Yovicsin were entertaining friends from Pennsylvania. "My plans were already made. I went home and faced the company," he says. It is hard to be perfectly at ease after a defeat; "I don't really relax for 24 hours or more," Yovicsin admits...
Twenty-five years ago, in the midst of the depression, two Pennsylvania towns, Ambridge and Aliquippa, tried one of the first serious experiments in applying new ideas about the school year. Both towns were operating under the pressure of necessity--they did not have sufficient funds to handle the school-age population using conventional methods...
...politician with an eye on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue had better keep the other eye cocked toward California, with its late (June 7), high-stakes (81 delegates to the Democratic National Convention, 70 to the Republican) presidential primaries and its 32 electoral votes. To no one is California more crucial than to Native Son Richard Nixon; if he cannot count on his home state, he will have a rough path to walk toward the White House. Just four months ago the Mervin Field poll, most widely circulated in the state, showed Nixon not only running well behind Massachusetts' John Kennedy...
...Pennsylvania-Princeton game this week carries major significance in the race. A win for the Tigers would restore them to prominence in the League. If Penn wins, the Red and Black will be the team to beat for Ivy League honors...