Word: rhodes
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Romney at this point can count on probable convention support from a host of moderate G.O.P. Governors. Rockefeller urged a Romney-Javits ticket last spring. Colorado's Love, Massachusetts' Volpe, Pennsylvania's Shafer, Wisconsin's Warren Knowles and Rhode Island's Chafee?who sees a possibility of a Romney-Chafee combination?might throw him their convention votes. Vermont's Senator George Aiken states flatly: "I've held that Romney is the most promising man we have. He could win." Among other Republican Senators, New Jersey's Case, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper, Hawaii's Hiram Fong and Maine's Margaret...
...RHODE ISLAND GOVERNOR 99% of the vote Chafee (R)* 204,000 Hobbs (D) 119,215 U.S. SENATOR 96% of the vote Pell (D)* 210,339 Briggs (R) 99,900 U.S. House (2): same...
...written consent before using the lie box. In private industry, labor arbitrators usually bar firing when evidence of wrongdoing is based solely on lie-detector tests or refusal to take them. New laws also forbid the tests as a condition of employment in six states (Alaska, California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington). J. Edgar Hoover calls the name lie detector "a complete misnomer" because the gaugers are totally incapable of "absolute judgments." And the current state of the art suggests that Texans and others had best not rely on polygraphs to solve their crime problems...
Official Silence. Nearly three years elapsed before DeSalvo was arrested again. On Nov. 3, 1964, he was taken into custody by Cambridge police who identified him as the "Green Man" (he wore green work pants) who had been raping women in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. On one day, between 9 a.m. and midday, he had assaulted four women in four towns. Indeed, DeSalvo told police, he had sexually assaulted perhaps 1,000 women in recent years -possibly 2,000, counting rapes in Germany, where he had been a G.I. in the occupation forces for five years...
...Eastern railroads tried to work out conditions that would be equitable for all. One problem has been the debt-ridden New Haven railroad. Under the terms of the merger, it will eventually become a part of the Penn Central; until it does. New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island...