Word: chigger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town evening to his apartment house on Manhattan's Central Park West. In the building's vestibule an ill-wisher met Costello, plunked one .38 slug into his head at ten-foot range, departed in a black Cadillac. The bullet, a hatband-guided missile, burrowed like a chigger in a short curve underneath Costello's scalp, and came out at the other side of his head without even nicking his skull. At week's end 60 detectives had poor prospects of finding the bungling gunman before he himself was liquidated by 1) Costello's boys...
Only a flat, last-minute, wildly improbable turndown by the top man could have beaten him, but Richard Nixon was taking nothing for granted last week in his campaign for vice-presidential renomination. Chigger-bitten by Harold Stassen, stung by California Governor Goodwin Knight's bumblebee efforts against him (TIME, Aug. 27), Nixon spread political balm in San Francisco with a soothing hand. Like a busy doctor, he moved from room to room of his Mark Hopkins Hotel suite to talk to delegations-and before long, the traffic was so heavy that the only way the delegates could leave...
With little more than a month to go before the national convention, the Democratic Baby last week was uncommonly quiet and still. Party leaders nibbled cucumber sandwiches in Illinois, collected chigger bites in Iowa, stood at attention for the Uruguayan national anthem in Montevideo (Minn.), smiled at each other across a table in Manhattan's "21." At national committee headquarters, staff members were calmly looking beyond the convention, planning to conduct the fall campaign with the help of Madison Avenue's Norman, Craig & Kummel, Inc., the advertising agency that made the Maidenform bra a symbol of the American...