Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aware of their rise, the Eleventh Congress resounded with confidence. Delegates re-elected a secretary general, Schoolteacher Luis Corvalan, 48, and President Elias Lafferte, 72. Brought back into the party's politburo was world-famed Poet Pablo Neruda...
...Back from three months in Africa, a pair of intrepid Britons reported in with the news that the good name of Physician-Explorer David Livingstone is still to be found in the Dark Continent. While tracing Livingstone's paddle up the sluggish Zambezi (made a century ago), Voyagers Quentin Keynes, 34, nephew of the late Economist John Maynard Keynes...
...Back in Hollywood, most of the crowd had left before Linda Christian and Ty's two daughters, Romina, 7, and Taryn, 5, laid a 5-ft. cross of white gardenias on the grave-which was all right with Debbie. "Ty belongs to me now," said Debbie. "Whatever anybody else does is of no concern to me any more." Said Linda, "I am happy for her if she can find peace in that belief...
...whose contract he wanted to buy had everything-a real rock 'n' roll talent and a real gone name. But Seat only had $25,000 to offer, and the kid's record contract alone was worth $40,000. So Elvis Presley stayed with Colonel Tom Parker back there in the fall of 1955 (RCA Victor got the record contract), and all Agent Seat could do was to try to latch onto a suitable substitute. He promptly chased down to Memphis after some cornball named Harold Jenkins...
...play with dynamite-or worse. Discharged from the Navy and also out on bond on a burglary indictment, he enrolled at Tyler Junior College. Aiming to be an X-ray technologist, he took practical lab work two hours a day at Mother Frances Hospital. In a back room at home he did such impractical work as making rockets that blew up ("The fuel was just too damn powerful," he explains...