Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greater loss by the pickpockets than the opposition. Back in 1951 a Harvard defensive unit held off a swarm of righteous Princetons for a full 20 minutes. That same year when the Crimson beat Brown officials had attempted to foil the raiders by covering the posts with a thick coat of lard. But blue blazers were used to wipe the posts clean enough to permit razing...
...misty, muggy Washington morning last week, House Speaker Joseph Martin Jr. tucked his shaggy forelock under a soft fedora, put on his new gale coat, shook hands with Vice President Richard Nixon and boarded a chartered airliner. A few minutes later, Dick Nixon climbed into another plane, took his seat and promptly fell asleep. His immediate destination was Columbus; Martin's was Newark. The two top Republican congressional campaigners were off on the first legs of journeys which would carry them the length and breadth of the land before the November elections...
...Ives yielded to his strong sense of party loyalty and agreed to run. He has no brown derby, no winning ways, no fiery mannerisms. Although he once taught public speaking, he is only a middling-fair speaker-a quiet man who hides a sharp intellect under the linsey-woolsey coat of an upstate countryman. He has been described (inaccurately) as a Jeffersonian Republican and as a political tiglon, yet few voters know what, specifically, Ives represents-except in the broadest general terms...
...richer by some $50,000 in cash and gifts such as a fur coat, furniture, vacation trips and a powder blue convertible. And she will probably escape taxes because she swam for "the honor of Canada...
...quarters, Café Filho continued to live in his three-bedroom Copacabana apartment. When the usual motorcycle fleet arrived to escort him on his first morning's drive to the palace, he ordered the escort abolished. At least once in the first week he dashed home, stripped off coat and tie, and lunched in comfort with his wife and son Eduardo, 11. He some times likes to relax with his collection of stuffed Amazonian birds and beasts, or putter around making coffee in the kitchen (see cut). Said Café Filho: "I see no reason why as President...