Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House, the Budget Director is one of Washington's most powerful men. He is the President's man, the only high official not confirmed by the Senate. Tennessee Senator Albert Gore charges that the Budget Bureau operates like "a czar or dictator," and Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough says: "It's really dangerous-it's not safe for the country." But Congress can hardly fault the bureau for being profligate when it comes to its own staff. Budget Director Schultze, a former University of Maryland economist, has as his official limousine a 1963 Pontiac that...
Also in the issue is a brief open letter from Ralph E. Miller, teaching fellow in economics. He suggests that Republicans concentrate their efforts at the state and local levels and leave the national government to the Democrats. This seems little more than sour grapes, vintage 1964. Finally, the Review has extracted a few remarks from a speech by Theodore R. McKeldin, the Republican mayor of Baltimore. The remarks are innocuous enough, concluding with a quote from Kipling. Perhaps the Republicans have run out of quotes from Lincoln...
Niederhoffer, despite strong competition from Canadian champion Colin Adair, advanced to the semi-finals without losing a game. There he faced the old nemesis of his college days, Ralph Howe, in what must be considered a classic match...
Niederhoffer won the finals over Sam Howe (Ralph's older brother) 11-15, 15-12, 15-13, 15-13, in a match of equal calibre, though dramatically a bit of an anti-climax. Sam Howe is probably the slowest of the top players, but he possesses the most accurate placements in the amateur game...
Other contenders are Yale Graduates Ralph and Sam Howe and the ageless Henri Salaun...