Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Linemen of the Wisconsin Telephone Co. were out on the road last week busily repairing the damage done to telephone cables by one of their most persistent natural enemies: the Sciurus carolinensis, or Eastern grey squirrel. To the engineers of Bell Telephone Laboratories, the problem is old stuff. In an average year, they figure, the grey squirrel gnaws through some half million dollars worth of U.S. cable. So far, no one has found a feasible way to stop...
...have announced for primaries in New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Florida, and California," he said, "and am seriously inclined to enter in Wisconsin." Kefauver explained that the opposition of Minnesota public officials has made him reluctant to file there...
...suggested by official Kansas figures, just released, on a six-year drive to treat all cases of severe mental illness as promptly and intensively as possible. Doctors found a telling comparison between Kansas' experience and that of seven other Midwestern states (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin) that have been slower in getting their intensive-treatment campaigns rolling...
...Conciliation Court is not unique; Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Washington, among other states, have similar courts. But Burke's court has a potent basic weapon: his reconciliation contract. The lengthy form document (36 pages) begins with an agreement to forgive past injuries, and covers a long list of subjects, including the right to privacy ("In such matters as personal mail"), in-laws, sex, late hours, gambling, grudges, bringing home the paycheck ("The parties agree to preserve and exhibit to one another all pay stubs representing any earnings earned by them"), charge accounts and the silent or doghouse treatment. Each...
Stevenson will also be under heavy pressure-mostly from those who wish him no good-to enter other primaries, especially the prestige-packed Wisconsin race. On the ground that he will be too busy in Minnesota, which comes two weeks before the April 3 Wisconsin primary, Stevenson hopes to stay clear of Wisconsin. For this, he has good cause: a survey recently turned over to him by a supporter, former U.S. Representative Andrew Biemiller, indicates that Estes Kefauver might very well beat Stevenson in Wisconsin...