Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audition judge Bert Chal-lenon (Ralph Nossek) holds an opposite view: "Don't try to be deep. Keep it simple. Any good comedian can lead an audience by the nose. But only in the direction they're going. And that direction is, quite simply, escape." The two who follow Challenon's advice win. The boy (Kenneth Cranham) who goes into a brilliantly pantomimed rage against two cardboard effigies of the middle class loses. What he epitomizes is about as funny as death, the price a British Lenny Bruce might have to pay for acceptance. T.E. Kalem
...Ralph D. Bennett, assistant professor of Architecture and assistant chairman of the Architecture Department, said yesterday that the department is confused by the committee's rejection. "We don't know whom to go to," he said...
Both Silberman and Guenther claim that none of the suggestions in the memo were carried out; their statement was challenged by the Ralph Nader-affiliated Health Research group. Whether or not the Health Research Group's accusations are true, the fact that a relatively high-level OSHA official viewed his agency as a political tool suggests that some of OSHA's problems are due to a lack of commitment within the agency to the spirit of the original legislation...
...Congressman Ralph Metcalfe, 65, the former track star who placed second to Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics, won re-election with 72% of the vote in a largely black area of Chicago's South Side, beating off a challenge by a Daley man. A onetime loyal lieutenant of Daley's who broke with him seven years ago over police misconduct in the black community and in 1975 supported former Alderman William Singer in his unsuccessful attempt to oust The Boss from the mayor's office, Metcalfe ran solely on the issue, "the liberation of the people...
Last week Callaway said that he had not put pressure on anybody. He admitted arranging meetings in 1973 between the CAB and his partner and brother-in-law, Businessman Ralph O. Walton Jr. Callaway pointed out that he was not in Government at the time. But as the coordinator of Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign in the Deep South, Callaway was the sort whom many a Government bureaucrat would likely heed...