Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capitol was one of the first to dress up record jackets with brightly colored photographs and prints. Columbia hired top artists (among them: Ben Shahn, Leo Lionni, Antonio Frasconi) to design its album covers. For the lower-browed mar ket, Decca tied in the sales campaign with popular magazines, last week spun out its Esquire series of albums decorated with long-stemmed Petty girls...
...high point of the trip came when the presidential party rolled back into Des Moines for the return flight to Washington. Jamming city streets from the State Capitol to the downtown district, more than 100,000 lowans gave Ike and Mamie a tumultuous, confetti-throwing welcome, the likes of which Des Moines oldtimers had never seen before...
Turn to the Right. Washington was a wonderful but bewildering place for the Wagners. When they first arrived, says Bob Jr., the father "suggested we go up and have our first good look at the Capitol. We left the Mayflower Hotel and hit a pretty confident course, but we took a right instead of a left. Instead of getting to the Capitol, we ended up in Georgetown." That was probably the first and last time that Robert Wagner Sr. steered a course to the right: a New Dealer in principle before the New Deal was born in fact...
...process carried every one of the state's 159 counties-a feat his daddy could never match. Winning an election at a relatively early age in a state accustomed to sticking with its Senators, this new breed of white-supremacy demagogue could well be a fixture on Capitol Hill for years to come...
...this year won him a rating by the Americans for Democratic Action as one of the eleven Senators most pleasing to that organization's left-wing position. But among his own colleagues Kefauver's popularity rating years ago dropped through the floor; he probably has fewer Capitol Hill friends than any other Senator. Hardly any have supported him in his quest for the presidency. Many feel that he has shamefully neglected his Senate duties to engage in that quest (in 16 years in the House and Senate, he authored not a single major piece of legislation). Others consider...