Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stan Vinson, a crack middle-distance runner, no longer has to wash dishes for a living. Now working for Wilson Sporting Goods Co., Vinson compiled a perfect indoor season this year, winning his 600-yd. race in ten straight track meets and sprinting off with the A.A.U. National Indoor Championships. Looking ahead to the outdoor season, Vinson says of his rejuvenation: "It's happening, I'm convinced, because I can concentrate on the two things that are most important to me, running and a career...
...White House. Never one to mince words, she asked him outright to name unprecedented numbers of women to positions in his administration. At her urging, in fact, Truman was on the verge of appointing an Ohio woman judge to the Supreme Court before Chief Justice Fred Vinson nixed the idea because he felt "the boys" wouldn't be able to relax with one another when discussing cases...
Fleming Greene Vinson Charleston...
...Newport News shipyard, a subsidiary of Tenneco, has asked a federal court for permission to stop work on a guided-missile cruiser. On its own, the Newport News yard, which has been building Navy ships since 1897, has suspended construction of the most advanced U.S. nuclear carrier, the Carl Vinson...
Curbing Rancor. Although some of his fellow justices carped about Warren's lack of legal scholarship, he transformed the sometimes fractious atmosphere of the Vinson Court by a mixture of charm, tact and candor. One law clerk, quoted in Leo Katcher's Warren biography, said: "What was lacking was a spirit of 'collegiality.' . . . Warren's job was to try to bring personalities together, not beliefs. He couldn't ask anyone to abandon a deeply held belief, but to accept opposition without rancor...