Word: q
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge were enriched by a restricted scholarship. As a transplanted native of Council Bluffs, Iowa, he was eligible for aid offered by Charles Perkins, president of the Chicago, Burlington &; Quincy Railroad, whose trust fund gave preference to youths "who come from the territory in Iowa served by the C.B. & Q. Railroad." Princeton engineering students from states served by the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. can apply for a special scholarship. At N.Y.U., would-be teachers tap funds given by Mrs. Finley J. Shepard-daughter of Railroad Magnate Jay Gould, if they happen to live along railroads Gould controlled...
Profitable Intangibles. Some clannish companies eventually sell out or merge: Q-Tips, for example, recently merged into Chesebrough-Pond's, and Breck Shampoo into American Cyanamid. A much larger number of successful and independent businesses find ingenious ways to overcame the hurdles. Charles Cassius Gates Jr., president of Denver's Gates Rubber Co., has led his company abroad and diversified it so widely that it now has both egg factories and a mutual fund. To overcome the disadvantages of nepotism, Seattle's Simpson Timber has ruled that the only job open to the owners' family...
Concern by the white middle class with what it thinks is decay of the moral fiber of America will remain an important factor in national elections, James Q. Wilson, associate professor of Government, maintained last night...
...under reporters' questioning, the Pentagon admitted that Walter Jenkins' security clearance to top-secret Air Force and Defense Department information and his Atomic Energy Commission top-secret "Q" clearance have been suspended...
...record, told the Secret Service about his having been arrested in 1959 on the vague charge of "investigation-suspicious person." As the Secret Service tells it, nobody checked further with the police about the arrest because it was only a misdemeanor and because Jenkins already had a "Q" clearance. According to all present accounts, nobody told Johnson about his aide's 1959 arrest. Jenkins got his White House pass...