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...month they nominated independent Democrat Elmer A. Carter, 63, for eight years a member of the New York State Commission Against Discrimination, for the borough presidency of Manhattan, the city's most important county. Quickly, Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri's faction of New York's badly split Democrats selected Colonel Chauncey Hooper, 59, an assistant deputy comptroller of the city and a staff officer in the New York National Guard, for the same office. In a supporting speech, the mayor told Harlem voters that he hoped they would vote for their "own stock," i.e., Candidate Hooper...
...seemed that the atom-already split, measured, analyzed, and prodded by great machines-had few secrets left. Scientists were almost agreed that the atomic nucleus (one-trillionth the size of an atom) is a solid sphere. Now Stanford University Physicist Robert Hofstadter and his assistants have examined the nucleus and found more space in the atom's heart than anyone had guessed...
Mayock hustled off to Washington and had a personal chat with Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Six weeks later, after Snyder prodded his underlings, Lasdon got a favorable ruling and Mayock got $65,000 cash. He split $35,000 of it among himself, Markus and Solomon, took the promised $30,000 to Louis Johnson, later Harry Truman's Defense Secretary, then chairman of the Democratic Finance Committee. "I went to the Democratic National Committee and unloaded it on Louis Johnson's desk," Mayock testified...
...losses, perhaps as many as 60 seats of their 1949 bloc. But the voters decided otherwise. Early on election night, the Liberal total soared to 170 seats and was still climbing. The Progressive Conservatives (Tories), the leading opposition party, could muster fewer than 60, with most of the remainder split between the minority Social Credit and CCF (socialist) Parties, and a scattering of independents...
Nearly everyone agrees that a good part of the money should come from license fees, gas taxes, etc. from those who use the roads. But how should the burden be split between the nation's 43 million private cars and 9 million trucks? The answer, a subject of bitter wrangling in every state legislature, has been fogged by propaganda fumes from the trucking industry, one of the most powerful lobbies in the U.S., and a smoke screen of publicity from the railroads, archfoes of the truckers...