Word: robert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supported the judge, but unhappily; up for re-election next year, Scott is not anxious to alienate blacks and union members in his industrial state by backing a jurist with an antilabor, anti-civil rights image (see THE LAW). Party loyalty could not hold either Assistant Minority Leader Robert Griffin of Michigan or Maine's Margaret Chase Smith, chairman of the Senate G.O.P. Conference. Both of them announced that they would vote against confirmation...
...Highgrove, Calif., last winter, a neighbor tipped the police that Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edwards had on their back porch a suspicious package containing "a dark green vegetable substance that appeared similar to alfalfa but did not smell like alfalfa." Without a search warrant, the police rummaged in the Edwardses' backyard trash cans and found a few pinches of pot. They forced their way into the house, arrested the couple and proceeded to search the premises until, they claimed later, they found caches of marijuana and LSD. After the defendants were each sentenced to between one and ten years...
...have appeared to waffle it," fretted HEW Secretary Robert Finch. Some people in the Food and Drug Administration, he said, "have been overzealous" in their warnings, while "others have gone too far the other way." Finch had good reason to be disturbed; there was growing confusion last week about the latest flare-up in the controversy over the safety of a substance that millions of Americans consume daily: the artificial sweetener, cyclamate...
...Monster. To score a beat on nature, the center operates at press-agency speed. With nine telephone lines and 15 Teletypes at his disposal, Center Director Robert Citron, 37, can reach investigators almost anywhere in the world within minutes after an alert. By last week the center had reported more than 199 major short-lived phenomena, including 41 earthquakes, 26 volcanic eruptions, 29 fireballs, 20 major oil spills, ten animal migrations and one red tide (a strange discoloration of the seas caused by a sudden spread of tiny marine organisms). Fifty-one of these events were important enough to warrant...
Even some major food processors are traditionalists. Robert Wise, head of Wise Potato Chips, a division of Borden, Inc. does not feel the least bit threatened by Chipos or Pringle's, nor does he plan to make a similar product. "We are not interested in competing with ourselves," he says...