Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...bring Virginia back into the Democratic fold (in 1952 and 1956 the state went to Eisenhower), Kennedy appointed Charlottesville Lawyer William Battle, 39, son of former Governor John Battle, to direct his Virginia campaign. Bill Battle is another old Navy friend; in 1943 he commanded the PT-boat group that rescued Kennedy and his crew from an island after their PT boat had been sliced apart by a Japanese destroyer in the South Pacific...
...majority (55%) of business and professional people are still Republicans, but only about one in seven among skilled (13%) and unskilled (14%) workers favors the G.O.P. Sidelight: during the past eight years, an increasing minority in each occupation group have decided that there is no essential difference in parties as far as their personal interests are concerned...
...time for shufling papers through IN and OUT boxes. He kept a clean desk, stuffed all incoming mail in a small drawer and remarked: "When I can't close the drawer, someone around here isn't doing enough work." As he recruited people into the Special Projects group, Red gave them all-including their families-a patriotic pep talk on the importance of their mission. Whenever anyone seemed to be soldiering on the job, he was hauled before the admiral for "re-dedicating." Remembering one of those emotional sessions, one S.P. officer says: "When I walked...
Wartime Urgency. The Navy's Special Projects group was asked what it could accomplish with a supplemental $350 million. Can-Do Man Raborn took just a week of consultation with ship design and missile experts to produce an answer. If the Defense Department would settle for a 1,200-mile missile instead of the 1,500 mile that was in the works, he could give the fleet an operational system by 1960, a full five years earlier than planned...
...pilot in Europe during World War I before returning to study at Temple University and the Wharton School of Finance. He says that he made and lost his first $5,000,000 in the Florida real estate boom in the '205, made another $25 million through a group of utilities holding companies. When the market crashed, Detwiler lost all his money. During the 19305 and 19405, he spent his time running investment development and securities companies...