Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...edge, but he was highly surprised by his 179,697-to-123,784 victory. Lewiston Lawyer and Democratic State Chairman Frank M. Coffin fared even more spectacularly by winning, for the first time in 22 years, the Democratic congressional seat in the industrial (Lewiston) Second District. Democrat James C. Oliver lost his fight for Congressman from the industrial First District (Portland) to five-term Representative Robert Hale by only 28 votes, and may apply for a recount. Democrats won 63 seats in the 184-member state legislature- an increase of 23, six of them in Portland alone-to knock...
After four rivals withdrew, big (200 Ibs.) popular Wilbur C. ("Dan") Daniel, 42, a Danville, Va. textile executive, was elected commander of the American Legion for 1957. Daniel's military record: 88 days of service at naval training in 1944 terminated by a medical discharge...
...good are the foreign-trained doctors now flocking to the U.S.? In far too many cases, not good enough, says Dr. Willard C. Rappleye, dean of Columbia University's Faculty of Medicine. Reason: their schooling is inadequate by U.S. standards...
...support of their thesis, the researchers pumped cortisone into female mice at the corresponding stage in gestation, when the palates of the embryos were forming, and produced clefts in 87%. Then they tried counteracting the hormone with vitamins B 6 , B 12 and C. Thus protected, mouse mothers produced young with normal palates. Other defects often seen in the newborn that may result from the same sort of stress, the doctors suggest, are absence of a collarbone or forearm bone, displacement of the heart, Mongolism (TIME. Aug. 13) and water on the brain. But confirmation of this theory...
...Rimini decided to put all entrants through a culture quiz. The results were disastrous. The beauties could not identify Hamlet, Lucrezia Borgia, or even Romulus and Remus (said one: "Greek twins''). None knew the boiling point of water, which in Italy is a simple 100°C. One was unable to name a single Italian wine-her brave try: "Champagne." Without congratulating the winner, Nives Zegna, 19, of Milan, the Vatican's eminent Osservatore Romano editorialized: "The attempt to ennoble the beauty contest, to demonstrate that these feminine fairs are different from horse shows by virtue...