Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decade, the bitterest holdout against the rush to retail trading stamps was the nation's biggest grocery chain, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Only last March did A. & P. reluctantly get into the game with Plaid stamps. Last week, at the company's annual meeting, President Ralph W. Burger, who two years ago condemned the stamps as a "drag on civilization," conceded that they may be good for business...
...giving us openings." observed Massachusetts' Ralph Bonnell. Texas Senator John Tower said that Kennedy's "power grab'' will "serve as a rallying point for Republicans all across the ideological spectrum." Said Michigan's John B. Martin: "A lot of people are getting the feeling that the President is throwing his weight around. He's doing this damage to himself, and it could turn out to be our strongest asset." Kennedy's action in the steel crisis, he said, was "more characteristic of Louis XIV than of the President of the U.S." National Committee...
...Moscow trumpeted still more exultant news: Broad Jumper Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, 24, who placed third in the 1960 Olympics, had sailed 27 ft. 3 in. during a meet in Armenia, thus smashing the 27-ft. 1¼-in. world record set by U.S. Olympic Champion Ralph Boston in last year's U.S.Soviet track meet in Moscow. Preparing for the fourth U.S.-Soviet track meet in Palo Alto, Calif, next month the Russians had two other new records to announce in the ladies' division. At a meet in Leipzig, East Germany, muscular Shotputter Tamara Press had boosted her record...
Westinghouse Presents (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Mildred Dunnock, Nancy Wickwire, Margaret Leighton, Roy Poole, Ralph Bellamy and Kevin McCarthy in a drama about a woman's readjustment to life after her discharge from a mental hospital...
...time he got to St. James Hospital in Chicago Heights, 25 miles south of the Loop, Farmer Ralph Douma, 72, was already in desperate shape. His jaw was stiff, and he could hardly open his mouth. He had difficulty in swallowing, and he was suffering from severe pains in his legs and back. St. James doctors had no trouble diagnosing Douma's problem: he was dying from tetanus (lockjaw) caused by a dirty wooden splinter he had picked up in his chicken yard 13 days before...