Word: roger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chose Thomas A. O'Brien, 3G in Chemistry; George W. Ross, 4G in Government; J. C. von Helms, 3G in Classics; and Roger D. K. Thomas, 4G in Geology...
...creation of Widener Library was forwarded by Coolidge, who left it the fifth largest library in the world. A fellow historian, Professor Roger B. Merriman, noted that the characterization of Widener Library as the best, place to work in he world, if justified, "is due first and foremost to Archibald Cary Coolidge...
...than 1,000 false names were ordered removed from the voters' lists, and officials were sternly warned to obey election laws. With rumors of violence spreading in some white neighborhoods, Gary's entire 268-man police force was put on a twelve-hour shift, and Democratic Governor Roger D. Branigin ordered 300 state troopers and 5,000 National Guardsmen to be ready to move into the city on 30 minutes' notice. As it turned out, incumbent Gary Mayor A. Martin Katz noted, "This was the most peaceful election in Gary's history...
...Unexpected is certainly the word for what has happened since. The Chicago Black Hawks, who won the N.H.L. race by 17 points last year, have managed only three victories in twelve games this year, rank dead last in the East Division. Next, there is the curious collapse of Roger Crozier, the talented young (25) Detroit Red Wings goalie, who only three seasons ago was the N.H.L.'s Rookie of the Year; last week, after giving up 18 goals in three games, Crozier quit the sport...
...Barker of PPG Industries. "Sure, you can keep surtaxing and surtaxing until we're surtaxed to death," says President A. Clark Daugherty of Rockwell Manufacturing Co., "but it won't help unless federal spending is cut." The difficulty about wielding an ax on the budget, noted Chairman Roger Blough of U.S. Steel Corp. last week, is that "nobody has come forward with a list of priorities that would command a consensus." Blough's somewhat idealistic recommendation: political support for "elected officials who vote to cut government spending even if this affects our own pet projects and communities...