Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wigner, though his name is not a household word, ranks high among the pioneers who led a nervous world into the age of the atom. In 1939, he was one of the five farsighted scientists* who wrote a letter for Albert Einstein to send to President Franklin D. Roosevelt suggesting that "it may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power would be generated." He was present at the University of Chicago's secrecy-shrouded squash court under the Stagg Field stands when the first nuclear...
...Friday night crowd at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway was in a festive mood. In the grandstand, beer cans rattled and pari-mutuel machines beat a steady thunk, thunk, thunk. In the Cloud Casino, champagne corks popped and waiters served steaks. For some, it was just a night at the races. But most were drawn there by a fantasy of instant wealth...
Just two nights before, Joseph Mariano, 39, a Waterbury, Conn., bartender, had made an alltime record killing $79,660.30 on a $2 ticket-by picking four straight winners in Roosevelt's "twin double." Now, as eight pacers raced toward the finish of the sixth race, 23,127 fans clutched their own twin doubles (85,574 of them) and prayed for Lady Luck to come through again...
Within minutes, 150 police converged on the track in 50 radio cars Frenzied rioters beat one patrolman nearly to death. Conrad Rothengast 65, Roosevelt's security chief and onetime chief of New York City's 20,000 uniformed police, dropped dead of a heart attack. For more than an hour the battle raged on. When it was finally quelled, 35 people were injured, 15 fans were arrested, and damage to Roosevelt Raceway was estimated at more than...
...interest. If he were to run for President, he said, he would seek delegate votes "everywhere," including New York State. As for Rocky's challenges to debate, Goldwater snapped: "I don't want to become allied with my enemies. These days the Governor is talking like Eleanor Roosevelt-God rest her soul-and Herbert Lehman...