Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waving them aside. Ole Earl resolutely took off in his DC-3 on a grueling Fourth of July speaking tour of four back-bayou towns, topped off with a "Miss Louisiana" beauty contest in the far northeastern corner of the state. Ole Earl was off and careening on his campaign trail for a fourth round in the Statehouse. The trail's end was not in sight, but Earl Long was set squarely on a tragic collision course, dragging the tottering Long dynasty and Louisiana behind...
...Paris-"Great battle, great victory!"-though it had been such a blood bath that a Swiss traveler, Henri Dunant, shocked by the lack of medical facilities, hastily set up the beginnings of what became the International Red Cross. Like most European reminders of past alliances, this 19th century campaign had its awkward details (Napoleon III had then grabbed Nice and Savoy for himself), but De Gaulle was happy to invoke the memories of Magenta and Solferino as he landed in his sleek Caravelle jet plane at Milan's Malpensa Airport...
Expropriation in most cases is supposed to take as much as a year, but Castro jumped the gun because of his fury at the stubborn ranchers. The National Cattlemen's Association had criticized the reform as "confiscatory," planned a $500,000 advertising campaign against it. Castro called the cattlemen "counterrevolutionary," a capital offense in Castro's Cuba. His soldiers picked up and jailed Félix Fernández Pérez, president of the Rustic Estate Owners, a tobacco farmer and rancher and onetime Castro supporter, now an outspoken critic (TIME, June 22). Then Castro summoned press...
...Bill Carlsen squirting up a shaving-cream snowstorm to Manhattan's arch, smock-coated Tex Antoine drooping a cartoon mustache to pass the same word about rain. There have been politicians (Maryland's Senator John Marshall Butler once sponsored a nightly weather roundup as a campaign gimmick), puppets, and above all, dolls. As one of the largest sponsors of TV weather programs (36 on local stations in the East), the Atlantic Refining Co. has tried its share of stunts. But last week it took its weathermen on a junket to Florida, treated them to a lecture from weather...
Impressed by the wheat campaign, the Grain Sorghum Producers Association of Amarillo decided to spend $30,000 in the next two years to encourage European feed mills and farmers to buy more U.S. coarse grains. The U.S. Rice Export Association of New Orleans invested $35,000 in a market analysis, learned that most European groceries sell rice out of bins; thus the European housewife often does not know whether it will cook up as firm, separate kernels or a gluey mess. One U.S. rice processor, Dallas' Comet Rice Mills, is now invading European retail stores with brightly boxed, consumer...