Word: w
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warned conservative Senator John W. Bricker when Ohio Republicans decided to put right-to-work up for a vote in the November election: "If you put this on the ballot, you will lose the governorship, control of the state senate and house, and I might lose." He was right all around...
...brass-spangled parade ground of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio one day last week, a burly, handsome, four-star general stepped forward to face General Thomas D. White, Air Force Chief of Staff. Moments later, General Edwin W. Rawlings was sporting a new piece of hardware on his chest: a first oakleaf cluster to the Distinguished Service Medal. With this parting gift, Ed Rawlings officially concluded 30 years of extraordinary service to the Air Force, went on his way at a youthful 54 to a civilian job as director and financial vice president of General Mills. Left...
...Heavy favorites failed to make the grade in two of the winter's richest horse races. In the $145,000 Santa Anita Handicap, C. W. Smith's Hillsdale (at 4 to 5 odds) was overtaken by Terrang in the last hundred yards, lost by half a length. In the $135,800 Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah, Christopher T. Chenery's flashy three-year-old, First Landing (17 to 20), was never a serious factor, finished third behind Bayard Sharp's Troilus...
...Believe me, we mean every word of it," exclaimed W. Scott Blanchard '59, of Kirkland House and Cedarhurst, L.I. There was no indication that Miss Woodward doubted his sincerity...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Society for Minority Rights has also recently elected its officers for the coming year. Emile C. Chi '60, of Kirkland House and New York City, was chosen president; Michael R. Lurie '60, of Leverett House and Mamaroneck, N.Y., vice-president; and John W. Sondheim '61, of Leverett House and Baltimore, Md., secretary...