Word: clem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Into the occasional squares, the tumescent alleys discharged themselves . . ." It is spring in Rome. Clem Stone, 34, is starving, having run through his G.I. checks and the patience of his wife abandoned back in the U.S. He has hocked his typewriter, and in any case has given up even the pretense of writing his novel, which was about the U.S. landing at Salerno. Another first novelist is at it again, the reader might well think, huffing and puffing and looking for metaphors...
...First Congressional District sweeps 300 miles up the rocky California coastline, from the San Francisco suburbs in Marin County past the vineyards of Sonoma and Napa counties to the rugged timberlands near the Oregon border. The First customarily sent a conservative to Congress until 1958, when liberal Democrat Clem Miller won the seat on his second try. Youthful and highly articulate. Miller was re-elected in 1960. He seemed a sure winner for 1962, so the Democratic-controlled state legislature altered his district only slightly in the gerrymandering that followed the 1960 census...
Last November, in the strangest congressional election of the year, Clem Miller again got a majority of the votes-four weeks after he had been killed in the crash of a twin-engined plane on Chaparral Mountain near Eureka. California law prohibits any change in the ballot within 40 days of an election, so the Democrats were unable to replace Miller. They kept on campaigning, argued that by electing Miller posthumously and forcing a later special election, the voters could keep the Republican candidate from winning by default. "The people are entitled to an election with a choice of candidates...
...Little Harold." Labor's left wing supports Harold Wilson, 46, an adroit, urbane debater and topnotch intellect who was an Oxford economics don at 21. As President of the Board of Trade in Clem ent Attlee's Cabinet, pipe-puffing Yorkshireman Wilson has had more administrative experience than any of his rivals, is the party's foreign policy specialist. Despite his brilliance and charm, Wilson's foes, who call him "Little Harold," regard him as a slippery opportunist who backs only winning causes-though he miscalculated in 1960 when he attempted to grab the leadership while...
...flag dropped, Gurney played a waiting game as A. J. Foyt, Goldsmith and the others dueled for the lead. Bumper to bumper the cars snarled around the circuit, hitting close to 150 m.p.h. on the straightaways, sliding boldly through the narrow turns. For some, the pace proved too fast. Clem Proctor's Pontiac hit an oil slick and leaped a 3½-ft.-high guardrail. Jim Paschal's Plymouth spun out of control, turned four somersaults and plunged over a steep embankment. Incredibly, neither driver was badly hurt. Streaking through Riverside's tricky S-curves in third...