Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harriman and his forces know that, to win, they must shake the party awake and set it to hollering. Adlai Stevenson and his supporters think they can keep it still and quiet until the decisive ballot. The care and feeding of the Baby, between now and the first roll call, may well be the decisive factor in Chicago...
Tennessee (32): Probably a courtesy call for Tennessee's Estes Kefauver on the first ballot, then a majority shift, behind Governor Frank Clement, to Adlai Stevenson...
...national convention] is definitely certain," he said. "We are shooting for the top spot. If a deadlock occurs, this may be our time." Seeking a psychological edge over other presidential hopefuls, Chandler began bargaining with Alabama to yield its No. 1 spot on the national Democratic roll call so that his name will be the first placed in nomination. If all else fails, he hinted, he might be willing to swap Kentucky's 30 votes for the vice-presidential spot on a ticket with New York's Averell Harriman...
Last week, back in Moscow, fledgling Foreign Minister Shepilov had little to show for his trip and instead preferred to talk of the "urgency" of "what one calls 'normalization' or what I would call 'rapprochement' between the United States and the U.S.S.R." But the ex-editor of Pravda soon showed that he had never been much of a newspaperman himself. "The U.S. press and radio," he said, "is still a Niagara of all sorts of lies and slanders. These irresponsible elements, which poison the atmosphere, should be muzzled...
...have a lot to learn from Americans [but] they are afraid we might find out some secrets of how to milk cows!" Boring in with pencil poised, New York Post Gossipist Earl Wilson heard a New York neurologist ask Bulganin if it was true that psychiatrists are on call around the clock for all Russians. Bantered Bulganin: "I don't know. They haven't had me examined that way yet!" After an hour of such empty pleasantries, Host Bohlen escorted B. & K. out through a pet project of Mrs. Bohlen-a corn patch in the embassy...