Word: ryan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become an honorable profession, open to every class and every race. It has produced a new type of professional athlete-admired, socially acceptable and remarkably well educated. Quarterback Charley Johnson of pro football's St. Louis Cardinals is currently studying for a Ph.D. in chemical engineering; Frank Ryan of the Cleveland Browns already has his Ph.D. (his dissertation: "A Characterization of the Set of Asymptotic Values of a Function Holomorphic in the Unit Disc"), and during the off season he is an assistant professor of mathematics at Case Institute of Technology. Coach Harold Laycoe of the Portland, Ore., Buckaroos...
...number of cities, including Pittsburgh, Chicago, Atlanta and Cincinnati, builders' efforts to step up production are complicated by shortages of carpenters, plumbers, bricklayers and electricians. "The building trades are replacing only 50% of their people who retire," explains Robert Teti of Pittsburgh's Ryan Homes. "It's tough to get craftsmen to work on the site, so you do it at the factory...
...Pressed for alternatives, he blurted: "It has been theorized that Grissom could have kicked the wire that would have been attached to the gas chronometer." That would have caused an abrasion in the insulation and made possible the arc that ignited the blaze. When New York Democrat William Fitts Ryan angrily disputed that suggestion, McCarthy retreated. "I only brought it up as a hypothesis," he said...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Shirley Booth and Robert Ryan in About Mrs. Leslie (1954), a story of two people who meet during World War II and spend a holiday together in California. Every year thereafter the idyl is repeated, and each year he vanishes until the next...
...SMITHSONIAN (NBC, 12:30-1 p.m.). "Catlin and the Indians," the life and works of George Catlin, famed painter of American Indians, with Bill Ryan as narrator...