Word: chica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Estes blasted Richard Nixon and Republican corruption, Campaign Assistant J. Howard McGrath sniped at National Committeeman Carmine De Sapio (who led the anti-Stevenson-Kefauver forces on Harriman's behalf at the Chica go convention): "He must have a vested interest in seeing this ticket defeated." But after Kefauver received telegrams of welcome from De Sapio and Governor Harriman, McGrath cooled down, accepted the explanation of local leaders: they were busy 24 hours a day getting voters registered for the election, could not spare time even to accompany their candidate. Said McGrath: "Merely a tempest in a teapot...
...Columbine III, the President reached Key West in 3½ hours. He was accompanied by his brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, and Mamie Eisenhower would follow them down for New Year's weekend. He got a rousing welcome as he drove from Boca Chica Naval Air Station to the Key West U.S. Navy Base, passing along Roosevelt Boulevard, Truman Street (which sports a Margaret Truman Launderette) and by Eisenhower Drive, which had been known, until the night before his arrival, as North Beach Road. Not three hours afterwards, the President was happily whacking golf balls...
...barred colonial windows, and reams of brief, impassioned verses, inscribed on linen paper of powder blue and slipped under a door. ("Love! Bitter love! Pursue me no more!") But the chaperons, the sedate hot-chocolate parties and all the genteel elegance of yesteryear are being put to rout. "Ay, chica," cries 1955's blue-jeaned swain as Night and Day booms out of the record-player, "you're sweeter than an ice-cream cone and a blue sky!" The girl's fashionable ponytail bobs happily in acknowledgment...