Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point-blank range of the island shore batteries, and the Boyd was bent on rescuing him. Suddenly, two 6-in. shells crashed into the forward .engine room, destroying half of the ship's power. Shellburst jets of water blossomed everywhere. The Boyd's skipper, Lieut. Commander Ulysses Simpson Grant Sharp Jr., unable to find the pilot, heeled the crippled destroyer about and began a nightmarish slow-motion escape through waters alive with explosions. "Knowing that the gunners would attempt to correct their fire after each miss," Sharp recalled later, "I decided to chase the fall of the shot...
Under the direction of Hoke S. Simpson, former director of personnel at Vick Chemical Co., the curriculum goes on to economics and business cycles, population problems and consumer behavior, ends with two weeks of "Executives in Action," a study of company goals, managerial decision making and corporate strategy. All this calls for 3½-hour morning sessions in front of the blackboard, three weekly afternoon lectures by guest speakers, and evening seminars for small groups to work over case histories of business problems. Homework, with a three-foot pile of books, often takes more evening hours...
...bill, while 21 voted against it. Twenty-seven Republicans voted aye, while only six said no. In addition to Barry Goldwater (see following story), the dissident Republicans were New Hampshire's Norris Cotton, Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper, New Mexico's Edwin Mechem, Wyoming's Milward Simpson and Texas' John Tower...
Self-protection becomes even more complicated in cities that require licenses for firearms. Yet never have New Yorkers, for example, needed protection so desperately. Only last week a 63-year-old lawyer, Leonard Simpson, was shot to death in the self-service elevator of his West Side apartment house. An 84-year-old New York shopkeeper, Frank Felicetti, recently shot and killed an intruder who, he said, had robbed and beaten him twice before. Felicetti was arrested for violating the city's Sullivan Law, which forbids owning unlicensed concealable weapons. He faces a maximum penalty of seven years...
Goldwater (Ariz.) Tower (Texas) Simpson...