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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Final figures showed Nixon leading Nelson A. Rockefeller, Governor of New York, by a 615-139 margin. Nixon was the favorite among Republicans with 437 first-choice votes to 87 for Rockefeller, and he led the New York governor, 139-38, among independent voters...
...Larry Purdy with help from Dave Coffin, perhaps the fastest man in the League, Fred Doelling and Ed Goodwin. The return of that entire backfield, along with nine of last year's starting eleven, gives coach Steve Sebo reason to hope for an Ivy League title. Other outstanding returnees among 22 of 32 lettermen are ends Barney Berlinger, and Jon Greenawalt, center Ron Champion and halfback Jack Hanlon...
...Chrysler's new economy car, the Valiant, heaviest (about 2,700 lbs.) and most powerful (100 h.p.) of the Big Three's compact cars. Styled with a sports-car slope, the Valiant seats six, gets 30 miles per gallon, has a top speed of 100 m.p.h. Among its features: a new six-cylinder engine mounted at a 30° angle, instead of straight, to give the car a lower center of gravity, and an alternator* instead of a direct-current generator. Chief advantages over a DC generator: more electrical energy at idling and low speeds, longer battery life...
North by Northwest. Director Alfred Hitchcock's implausible but entertaining mystery, with Gary Grant as a Madison Avenue adman up to his immaculate collar in spies and counterspies, among them Eva Marie Saint and James Mason...
This impassioned and vague plea has its interesting aspects, but seems fatuous. It implies, or rather assumes, the existence of a determined and self-conscious attitude among the writers of post-adolescent love fiction. These tales are obviously intensely personal things and their authors doubtless believe that they are probing the situation to the very limit, which they very well might be doing. It seems a bit ludicrous to hope that a new moral framework (if indeed the whole idea has any meaning), will come from the pens of a group of writers whose entire effect comes from the charm...