Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became a partner in a respected Denver law firm. He built a reputation in 14 years there as a versatile lawyer who could handle complex corporation cases, tax matters, contract disputes or general law. Politically, he had done little more than some dabbling in Denver's Democratic ward politics when, in 1960, Jack Kennedy asked his help in rounding up Colorado delegates at the Democratic convention. After the convention, Bobby Kennedy asked White to head the national Citizens for Kennedy group and was impressed by White's softspoken yet persuasive wooing of the voters. "They see Byron...
...difference between news and his tory is only time. The news last week apparently brought little reason for cheer. Moslem and French blood mingled in the gutters of Algiers. In East Germany Volkspolizoi machine-gunned an official U.S. automobile. In Geneva, the 17-nation Disarmament Conference dragged on to ward deadlock, and in Luxembourg the six Common Market foreign ministers broke up bickering because France stubbornly opposed plans for West Europe's political integration. But in time, history might well conclude that all these were minor disturbances - or even positive steps - in one of the century's most...
...Senate. That would ordinarily be a fine thing-except that Ted thus placed himself on a collision course with another dynastic figure: State Attorney General Edward McCormack, 38, nephew of House Speaker John McCormack, who wants the Democratic Senate nomination just as badly as Ted. Groaned Democratic Ward Chairman Theodore Dimauro of Springfield: "This is the hottest thing that I've ever been involved...
...incorrigible troublemaker. "He's a bad man," says Detective Sergeant James Reddick. "He hangs out with a bunch of dogs." To his onetime comanager, Monroe Harrison, he is "vicious all the way." To some sportswriters, he is too mean to be permitted in the ring. Wrote Gene Ward in the New York Daily News: "The world has too many hoodlums in high places as it is." Yet to the Rev. Edward P. Murphy, a Denver Catholic priest who befriended him, Liston is "a man of tremendous potential...
...displeasure of a lot of people. I was scared." But candid, headstrong young Grace was not so frightened that he failed to see his company needed refurbishing. To beef up Grace's diminishing core of top executives, he personally set about hiring topflight new executives from Montgomery Ward, Coca-Cola and Jersey Standard. Simultaneously, he set up a statistical study division to find ways of overhauling Grace's traditional operations and to seek out new enterprises that would reduce the company's excessive concentration in Latin America...