Word: cook
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Illinois, which Kennedy carried by 8,849 out of 4,750,000 votes, recounters last week had waded through only 56 of Cook County's 906 paper-ballot precincts, and Republicans claimed a net gain of 451 votes for Nixon. In New Jersey, Republicans called off the fight after early recounts came up with small Kennedy gains. In Missouri, recounts cannot get under way unless and until they are authorized by the Democrat-controlled state legislature, which does not meet again until January, just several days before the inauguration of President-elect Kennedy...
...There can only be one choice: Ship's Cook Brian Quinn. He led Soviet Seaman Victor Jaanimets to freedom...
...emergency meeting of the National Committee in Washington, G.O.P. investigators moved into eight marginal states (Illinois, Texas, Missouri, New Mexico, Nevada, South Carolina, New Jersey and Pennsylvania) for a "close, hard look at the situation." Illinois Republicans, scanning a shaky 10,157 Kennedy lead-mostly in machine-run Democratic Cook County-had already ordered a re-count of more than 5,000 precincts. "If in Illinois and several other states Nixon receives a fair and accurate count," said Nixon's Illinois Lieutenant Bill Rentschler confidently, "then Nixon will be inaugurated in January...
Fail-Safe. At sea all hands take exquisite pains to keep the encapsuled atmosphere habitable. Navy chemists know that animal fats break down during cooking and give off eye-irritating chemicals, so ship's cooks use vegetable fats instead of lard. Bleaches are forbidden in the ships' laundries; they release chlorine that would contaminate the atmosphere. Aerosol shaving creams are prohibited because of their Freon gas. Ship's doctors must guard their clinical thermometers carefully; if broken, their mercury might evaporate into deadly fumes. But as important as the air itself is the attention to the inner...
...father was once a popular state attorney general, is married to the daughter of Chicago's Mayor Anton Cermak (killed in Miami in 1933 by an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin Roosevelt). Kerner has an impressive six-year record of his own as a reform-minded Cook County (Chicago) judge who helped revamp local judicial procedures, led a successful fight to modernize state election statutes. His key campaign promises: more aid for schools, hospitals and depressed areas downstate...