Word: toledo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anywhere else-would have dared such doggerel about the Yankees, perennial overlords of the American League, winners of 29 pennants and 20 World Series. But last season the champion Yanks plummeted to sixth place, and rival teams started hooting that they ought to change their name to the Toledo Mud Hens. "Don't you believe it," growled General Man ager Ralph Houk. "We're not dead yet." He was right. The Yankees still had some dying...
Putts on the Carpet. The Toledo-born son of a white-collar employee of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, Saxon once studied for the Catholic priesthood but switched, first to economics and later to law, in which he earned a degree at Georgetown University ('50) while working for the Treasury Department. In 1952, he became assistant to Stephen A. Mitchell, then chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He spent the eight Eisenhower years as assistant general counsel for the American Bankers Association and later as an attorney for First National Bank of Chicago. President Kennedy named him comptroller...
...duke, professor and poet, Rexroth functioned magnificently in the sub-worlds of Chicago, Greenwich Village and the syndicalist meeting halls of Seattle, until he came at last to the big rock candy mountains of San Francisco. From the time he was an eagle scout in Toledo, Ohio-operating, he claims, from what must have been the only left-wing gangsterized troop in America-Rexroth's big German-American farm boy's face shone with the vocation of the radical outsider proud of belonging to people who have no belongings. Whether he was selling snake oil to farmers...
...Toledo, Judge Paul W. Alexander's much-admired conciliation court averts divorce in 44% of the cases it tackles. In Los Angeles, Judge Roger A. Pfaff's conciliation court gets 50% of its business from lawyers who refer unhappy spouses even before they file divorce suits. With the aid of eleven highly trained counselors who must have at least ten years' experience, Pfaff's court helps more than 4,000 volunteer couples a year, gets 60% of them to make up and sign detailed "husband-wife" agreements that have the force of law. "Divorce courts throughout...
...Ohio town of Sandusky are simi lar in size and economy (tourism and shipping). They were thus suited to be among some 30 paired communities used in a two-year study of the quality of grade-school education in the U.S. and Britain. A team of University of Toledo educators, headed by Professor Robert L. Gibson, gave pupils in the paired towns identical achievement tests in English usage, arithmetic and read ing. The findings, first factual evidence on a much debated question, show that U.S. children start slower than British kids but edge ahead...