Word: ralph
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...politics-has dominated Texas for generations. But if the state lacks a genuine two-party system, it does have a highly active two-party party. Next year, in the vacuum that Connally will leave, liberal Democrats led by the Governor's bitter enemy, Populist-minded Senator Ralph Yarborough, have hopes of breaking the conservative hegemony in Austin. Lamented one Connally partisan: "We just don't have anybody who can keep the thing together...
Rachal also put Mooney's internal operations on a straight course. To keep pace with growing output-from 348 planes in 1962 to 790 last year-he expanded Mooney's Kerrville plant. To hold down payroll expenses, he enlisted only two other executives-Chief Engineer Ralph Harmon and brother-in-law Hoffman, who serves as a vice president in charge of sales. His 1,000 plant workers get substantial incentive bonuses; Mooney is delighted that few of them have seen fit to join a union ("They're paid more for their services than...
Divorced. Ralph Schoenman, 32, Brooklyn-born secretary to British Pacifist Bertrand Russell and organizer of last May's Stockholm circus "trial" that convicted the U.S. of "war crimes" in Viet Nam; by Susan Goodricke Schoenman, 25, his wife of five years; in Bournemouth, England. In granting the divorce on uncontested grounds of cruelty, the judge noted Schoenman's "sexual aberrations" and his habit of "refusing to wash or bathe except on very rare occasions...
Switching Bills. With Mondale racking up mileage from his publicly popular cause-and with headline-grabbing Ralph Nader and labor unions joining the fight for across-the-board federal standards-it was not surprising last week that the Johnson Administration switched allegiance from Montoya to Mondale. Said Consumer Affairs Special Assistant Betty Furness: "The American housewife wants immediate and mandatory meat inspection." Speaking of the Montoya bill, she added: "I believe the housewife is unwilling to wait two years or three years or longer before she can be confident that the meat she serves her family is healthful." Best guess...
...passed the Ohio bar examination in 1957, Stokes resigned his court job and went into law practice with his brother. A year later Mayor Anthony Celebrezze appointed him an assistant prosecutor under City Law Director Ralph Locher. The next step, in 1962, was election to the state legislature, where he quickly established himself as a prolific, catholic lawmaker. He helped draft legislation establishing a state department of urban affairs, wrote a new mental-health services act, helped enact stiffer traffic regulations, promoted a gun-control bill, worked for tougher air-pollution controls, and was the only Democrat to sponsor...