Word: stratton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first story in Assembly, a 63-pager called "Mrs. Stratton of Oak Knoll," typifies this shortcoming, and it is enough to makes less patient readers heave the volume through a window. For 63 pages, nobody says anything or does anything of the slightest interest to anybody, and all these precious people stumble in and out of each other's houses to no purpose. Finally, without ever getting off the ground, "Mrs. Stratton of Oak Knoll" ends. That's one thing in its favor...
...Snowmakers. Skiing, in fact, is probably the fastest-growing recreation on earth. In the U.S. alone, 30 new areas have been opened this year, ranging from Sierra Blanca in New Mexico to Stratton Mountain in Vermont, where a giant lodge and twelve slopes and trails have been built at a cost of more than...
State representative John J. Toomey (D-Cambridge), charged Tuesday that Harvard and M.I.T. had pressed their proposal for the Brookline-Elm St. route at a secret conference in 1959. He quoted Julius A. Stratton, President of M.I.T., as saying that he, Stratton, would use "all my influence" to block approval of the route along the railroad tracks which Toomey supported...
According to Whitlock, the conference that Toomey was referring to was a luncheon two years ago called at Toomey's request at which Stratton, President Pusey, and other members of the Cambridge Advisory Committee were present...
...Rocky, he was unimpressed by Stratton's candidacy. He promptly called a press conference, reavowed his intention to run for reelection, made it equally clear that he still had high hopes for 1964. He refused once more to pledge that he would serve a full four-year term in Albany, concluded meaningfully: "The people of this state have a tradition of interest and concern in national and international affairs...