Word: bert
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...picture in the Powers family album. As it was being engraved, all of the plants in which TIME is printed-Chicago, Albany, Washington, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Melbourne, Paris and Havana-were preparing for the big change. When the covers were being airlifted to their destinations, said Production Chief Bert Chapman, "practically every airplane overhead was carrying TIME material...
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...these days Kentuckians have reason to hope that a new day has dawned. The reason: a remarkable performance during his first months in office by Governor Bert Thomas Combs...
Making a Point. Bert Combs, a country lawyer from Prestonsburg (pop. 3,585) with a way-down-yonder drawl, was elected last year over a handpicked Chandler candidate. A shy, retiring sort of man, he seemed likely to be overshadowed by 1) powerful former U.S. Senator Earle C. Clements, who had backed Combs against the rival Chandler faction, and 2) smart, persuasive Lieutenant Governor Wilson Wyatt, onetime (1941-45) mayor of Louisville and U.S. housing expediter in 1946 under Truman. But from the beginning, Combs worked smoothly with Wyatt, and he quickly let Clements know who was boss...
Trimming & Taxing. To finance his billion-dollar budget, Combs insisted on a 3% sales tax, trimmed 40% from the state income tax. Kentucky pols promptly predicted that the hated sales tax would kill Combs's political career. But Bert Combs professed no ambitions beyond his term's end in 1963. Said he: "I would like to leave some sort of track that I've been here." He already...