Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lengths Volpe had to go to get a man for every office suggests just that. It is not at all obvious that Republican strength rests on more than the party's vigorous personalities or the opposition's week candidates. There was virtually no competition for two state wide-offices (Raymond Traubel, the endorsee for Secretary of State, was drafted from the governor's State House staff, and like Fernandes, his candidacy was announced less than 72 hours before the convention), and for a third, there was only a belated struggle. That fight did not develop until the Democrats nominated Joseph...
...case the reader accepts their implausibility because the characters, particularly the Op himself-a fat, stubby, middle-aged man who never got a name and needed none, being an archetype-seem so real. "He put these people down on paper as they are," wrote Raymond Chandler, whose fictional Philip Marlowe was one of the more successful copies of Hammett's laconic Op. "He made them talk and think in the language they customarily used...
...Raymond International of Manhattan, Morrison-Knudsen, Brown & Root of Houston, and J. A. Jones of Charlotte...
Died. Blanche Wolf Knopf, 71, president of Alfred A. Knopf publishing house and wife of Board Chairman Alfred A. Knopf, who worked tirelessly for 51 years to bring the firm to its current prestigious place, personally garnering such luminaries as Freud, Sartre and Camus, as well as mystery writers Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...Raymond G. Wilmer, 47, a housewife in the Cleveland suburb of Parma, had a mitral valve so scarred from rheumatic fever that it did not let enough blood flow from the left auricle into the left ventricle. Often such valves can be repaired with a deft scalpel: many are now replaced with artificial valves. But Mrs. Wilmer's valve was too damaged for repair, and scarring left no room for an artificial implant...