Word: ralph
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Standouts for the Crimson on defense included backs Pat Cashma and Kevin Rafferty, and forwards Toby Campion and Ralph Harder...
Barely 2$ hours after the polls closed, commentators on two of Cleveland's TV and radio stations confidently predicted that incumbent Mayor Ralph S. Locher would win the Democratic Party nomination for another term. That seemed reasonable enough, since, with 70% of the ballots counted, the three-term mayor had a 10,000-vote edge over his closest opponent, Carl B. Stokes, a Negro. Yet within ten minutes, articulate, kinetic Stokes went before the TV cameras and confidently-and correctly-predicted his own victory in the primary. When it came, a short time thereafter, he exulted to Cleveland voters...
...that U.S. troops had provoked the incident inside Mexico. The war was particularly unpopular among U.S. intellectuals. Henry Thoreau spent a night in the Concord jail for refusing to pay his state poll tax. Next day, he returned to Walden Pond to write his famous essay on Civil Disobedience. Ralph Waldo Emerson warned that "the U.S. will conquer Mexico, but it will be as the man swallows the arsenic, which brings him down in turn. Mexico will poison...
...Suburbs. Under the tandem supervision of Fred and Ralph Lazarus, Federated has grown at a breathless pace. The company, which includes Bloomingdale's and Abraham & Straus in New York, Burdine's of Miami, Filene's of Boston, Foley's of Houston and Goldsmith's of Memphis, has built so many suburban stores that last year, for the first time, branch sales exceeded those of big downtown stores. In 1964, in its latest acquisition move, Federated took over Bullock's of Cal ifornia, which includes I. Magnin & Co., a Bullock subsidiary with 20 stores that...
Bullock's will be the last department store addition for a while. As part of the transaction, Federated agreed with the Federal Trade Commission that it would not buy any more such stores for a five-year period. Expansion-minded Ralph Lazarus, therefore, is looking for other opportunities. The company is about to open a string of discount stores under the name "Gold Circle," has borrowed $20,000,000 to invest in European retailing if an opportunity comes...