Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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POLITICAL NOTES Poll Vaulting On his swing through Oregon, Presidential Hopeful Nelson Rockefeller sprayed just a whiff of doubt that Vice President Richard Nixon could win enough independent and Democratic votes to win the presidential election (TIME, Nov. 23). Last week, in a visit to Rhode Island, he conceded that Nixon "probably" could win the election if it were held today. But, he added, "we can't foresee now what the circumstances will be a year from...
...game was marred by frankly partisan officiating. Two Rhode Island referees, who consistently amazed the large homecoming crowd by shouting "our ball" when Brown had possession, also alerted the Bruin goalie when a Crimson threat was brewing, and made several questionable calls...
...first time, two special ($5,000) Lasker awards went to members of Congress for championing increased appropriations for medical research: Alabama's Senator Lister Hill and Rhode Island's Congressman John E. Fogarty...
...Rhode Island's grandest old man. Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green, rose as usual at 7 a.m., breakfasted on an apple, an orange, wheat flakes, toast, and a glass of milk. Then, in his ancestral mansion in Providence, he turned his attention to all sorts of packages, greeting cards, phone calls. It was his 92nd birthday. Bachelor Green, an infantry officer in the Spanish-American War, was pleasantly bored with his celebrity as the oldest man ever to serve in the U.S. Congress. But he bridled at an interviewer's query as to whether he plans...
Grand Chef de Train Grand Voiture du Rhode Island W. Warwick...