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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Namely. In London, the Times warned the town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllandysiliogogogoch, Wales, that it had a close challenger: a correspondent had discovered a hilltop in New Zealand called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu...
...Clearly Ahead." Roper would continue to keep an eye on the campaign, nonetheless. For one thing, the Democrats still had congressional and gubernatorial candidates who might be able to buck the Republican groundswell. Because of many close Senate races, there was even an outside chance of a Democratic Senate next year...
Texans had to admit that the U.S. Senate race between pipe-smoking ex-Governor Coke Stevenson and fast-talking Congressman Lyndon Johnson was close-even for Texas. Ten days after the election it was still impossible to tell...
...seasoned and ambitious man. He had been a janitor, a schoolteacher, a secretary, a New Deal youth administrator (he liked to say that Franklin Roosevelt had "been like a daddy" to him), and had served 5½ terms in Congress. He had been in close races before. He had run for the Senate against W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel in 1941, had been beaten by only 1,311 votes (out of some 565,000 cast...
...production, Billy had an idea that "is so simple that it's a cinch to be greeted with screams and derision." The cost of hauling scenery off to the warehouse, then hauling it back again two weeks later and putting it up, says Billy, is close to $4,000. "Why, then, wouldn't it be smart to present two operas a week instead of five or six? ... Why not play Carmen the first half of the week and, let's say, Der Rosenkavalier the second half? And ditto the rest of the operas in next season...