Word: boxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself "Adlai's friend," but added that at 64, Harriman was not too old for the presidency. Next day in Albany, Truman joined Harriman at a reception for 150 party leaders and their wives. In the vast, flag-draped Albany armory, the mass of party hopefuls were given box lunches, armloads of campaign materials, and later speeches by De Sapio, Harriman and Truman. No speaker mentioned Adlai Stevenson, and his picture was not among the big portraits of party leaders placarding the hall. Biggest: Harriman and Truman. Some guests wore "Harriman in '56" buttons, but the word went...
...moment of musical glory. Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos was returning to his native Greece for the first time in 17 years, bringing with him the 104 members of his touring New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Thousands, many equipped with food and folding chairs, camped all night in front of the box office, and scalpers set the price of seats at $30. When Mitropoulos arrived four hours late at Athens' airport, after a bumpy flight from Naples, hundreds of admirers greeted him with cries of "Yassou, yassou-Hello, hello." and thrust bunches of tuberoses and laurel into his arms...
...kind of balloting card. Separated by a perforated line were two photographs: one of playboy Chief of State Bao Dai, the other of austere Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. Next week 3,000,000 Vietnamese will tear the cards down the middle and each will drop into a ballot box the picture of the man he wants to lead South Viet Nam. In this way the people will settle a dispute that has seriously hurt the democratic half of the country so sadly truncated at Geneva...
When the trial resumes this morning, McCarthy will return to the witness box for questions by defense counsel Calvin P. Bartlett...
Next, while the voters pressed close to the porch rail to watch, the official ceremoniously counted the blank ballots. Then he picked up the varnished wooden ballot box, held it aloft like a magician doing a trick. "Is it empty?" he asked. "Empty, empty," came the chorused reply. "There is no cheating?" "No cheating," chanted the voters, "no cheating." Sharp at 8 a.m., the official called the name of the first voter, a wizened, crippled man of 95. He limped to the palm-leaf voting booth, spread the ballot over a sandbag, hesitated for several minutes, then carefully punched...