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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scores of mayoralty elections in the U.S. last week generated all the excitement and drama of oldfashioned, blare-and-bunting campaigns that always bring out the best and worst in local officeholders. Among the battles for City Hall that gave the voters their ballot's worth...
...Among Congressional Democrats, the "without compensation" arrangement raised cries of conflict-of-interest despite Critchfield's promise to take no hand in decisions on Convair projects ($4,000,000 of ARPA's $500 million budget). Among hard-pressed military missilemen, Critchfield raised hopes of at last finding a boss who knows his way around with two kinds of rare birds: missiles and scientists. Critchfield knows his way around in still another way that should stand him in good stead in the Pentagon: he is a shrewd and lucky poker player with a tested wizardry for figuring the odds...
...battle. Each is tall as a ceiling, agile as a mongoose. Boston's Bill Russell (6 ft. 10 in., 220 lbs.) has faster reactions and more experience, is going into his fourth season with the champion Celtics. To challenge Russell's franchise among the best of the tree-tall pros, the Philadelphia Warriors' Wilt-the-Stilt Chamberlain offers 7 ft. 2 in., 250 coordinated pounds, and a broad repertory of shots: dunks, long one-handers, a soft, fadeaway jump...
Last week in Berkeley's Cowell Memorial Hospital, surgeons operated on Halfback Bates, repairing the right side of his face, described by a staff doctor as "crushed in, distorted, flattened, and twisted by the fractured parts that hold the face in contour." Among the multiple fractures, the plate of bone that holds the upper teeth was cracked and "the right sinus was fractured extensively...
...first indignantly denying all, then thrusting up new lies containing partial admissions. Almost with relish, Van Doren testified that he had been foolish, naive, prideful, avaricious. To the hilt, he was the anguished soul torn by struggles of conscience-and when he finished, there was barely a dry eye among the Congressmen. In an outburst of Senator Claghorn sentimentality, most lauded his "fortitude" and "soul searching." After Van Doren thanked the committee and said he hoped that he would not do "that sort of thing again," Chairman Oren Harris said: "I think you have a great future ahead...