Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Steinle still has an uphill battle, his least expected asset for November is that it is now the Democrats who are plagued with faction fights and feuds. Last fortnight State Senator Gaylord Nelson, Democratic candidate for Governor against hard-to-beat G.O.P. incumbent Governor Vernon Thomson, launched a crunching head-on attack against Ticket-Mate Bill Proxmire. Reason: Proxmire invited Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson to speak at Milwaukee's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner on May 17, and even though Johnson could not come, Nelson took after him as the spokesman for Texas oil interests inimical to Wisconsin...
Down from the hill, Photographer Griffin set up the biggest beat of the tour after recording the Caracas attack from the photographers' truck. Unable to charter a private plane, he got his film aboard a Pan American flight to Port of Spain. Trinidad. By fortunate happenstance, a Radidphoto transmitter had been installed there only last month for Princess Margaret's visit. Griffin's pictures were moving out from New York by 2 a.m. the following day, a good nine hours ahead of rival United Press...
...Publisher Robert Harrison's hassle with California's attorney general last fall, his sister magazines Whisper and Confidential were fined $10,000 for conspiring to publish obscenity, and he agreed to tidy up his flamboyant formula of smut-and-smear. Off the boudoir-bordello beat, Harrison started in February to put out a chastened Confidential, which explored such safe subjects as the Negro vote and electrocardiographs...
...Push, Man, Push!" Just three days later in Detroit, chunky "Chuck" Vinci, concentrating so hard that he managed a kind of self-hypnosis before each lift, beat Russia's Vladimir Stogov with the help of a hefty 231¼ lb. snatch. Dave Sheppard, heeding his teammates' shouts to "Push, man, push!'', lifted a total of 1,013¾ Ibs. for a second U.S. victory. The final score was Russia...
...Lightening Continent. In Blantyre, Nyasaland, the council of the Rumpi District issued an order that any native wishing to beat his tom-tom after 11 p.m. must buy a license costing...