Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indiana's Congressman Charles Halleck, who has been busy on the West Coast and elsewhere promoting Charlie Halleck as the G.O.P.'s most promising vice-presidential bet, suddenly called off the campaign. Reason: the folks at home have that neglected feeling, are wondering whether Charlie has been taking them for granted. Result: from now on, 13-termer Halleck will concentrate on wooing the Hoosiers in Indiana's Second Congressional District (which gave him a none too solid plurality of 6,000 in the 1958 elections), will bide his time until next July's Republican Convention, when...
...government where the whites run things. When Nkrumah held his All-Africa Peoples Conference, he propelled Labor Leader Mboya into the chairmanship, and the stage seemed set for a lasting alliance of Mboya's rising influence in East Africa with Nkrumah's power on the West Coast...
...knows exactly when, but it was some 2,000 years ago that a ship from Egypt was wrecked on the west coast of India, south of Bombay. Seven men and seven women survived, and an ancient cemetery at the village of Nowgow is traditionally the place where they buried the bodies of the drowned. The 14 survivors were given jobs by a Hindu oil merchant, who put them to work pressing seeds for oil (still a traditional occupation of some Bene Israel villagers). Because they refused to work on the Sabbath, the Hindus called them Shanwar Telis-Saturday...
...probation, but may get off next semester. Champion diver Frank Gorman's status is also in doubt. Both are essential against Yale, Hunter for firsts in the 50 and 100-yard freestyles and the final relay, and Gorman because he is the best diver on the East coast. At any rate, neither can be entered against Navy in January...
...Stade also praised the new singlerent plan, whereby all rooms in freshman dormitories rent for the same price per year regardless of size or "desirability." He asserted that "it has eliminated the distinction between 'Gold Coast' freshmen and scholarship students, and has also brought greater mixing among groups of students." Last year the Masters debated extending this policy to upperclassmen, but finally rejected...