Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Specifically, it was Gene Purdy, playing on an all-new line with Bill Hozack and Murray (no, he isn't Ralph Malph's twin brother) Dea, who had a field day against the New Haveners...
...Ralph F. Kocher Appleton...
...Reverend Ralph, an Episcopal minister since 1958, concedes that this decidedly non-sacerdotal language is accurately quoted, but insists the passion of the moment justified his outburst. His executive assistant recalls indignantly several insulting remarks she says McLaughlin and Danehy made about Ralph in open meetings, remarks never recorded in the minutes...
Most observers around the court house predict a speedy resolution to Ralph's suit, perhaps involving an out-of-court settlement. But the end of the legal battle will probably do nothing to restore political peace in Middlesex county. Ralph and McLaughlin are ensconced in office until 1980. Danehy, who must face the voters in two years, stands an excellent chance of re-election. Barring an unexpected resignation or a still more surprising rapprochement, it looks as if the Middlesex county commissioners are going to have each other to kick around for several years to come...
...second front in his duties as Director of ACDA. The bureau was created in the halcyon days of arms control, in the era of the Test Ban Treaty. It was a conceptual offspring of the "National Peace Agency" envisioned by disarmamentminded scientists after Hiroshima. The agency--which physicist Ralph Lapp has termed "a bashful chrysalis reluctant to try its wings"--has little true policy-making authority, and while it is undoubtedly more inclined toward weapons-control than other bureaucratic divisions, it has hardly been independent or boldly innovative. Understaffed, underfunded and overshadowed by the authority of its giant older siblings...