Word: cochran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson took firsts in every event except the 200-yard backstroke, which Tech was expected to take. Sophomore Dick Seaton was expecially impressive in the 440-yard free-style, which he won in 5:07.3. Kohler was second for M.I.T. which Tom Cochran gave Harvard a third...
Saund defeated Republican Jacqueline Cochran Odium, who was herself born in abject poverty. She rose to fame as an aviatress, and to wealth as the wife of Financier Floyd Odium and as a highly successful businesswoman (cosmetics). But during the flamboyant campaign, some voters decided that high-flying Jackie Cochran was trying to dazzle her way into public office. Others resented the fact that after years of aloofness she had become neighborly only during her campaign. "Saund," said one, "is at least one of us. Mrs. Odium...
...house lawn, and on the open road quickly pushed up to 80 m.p.h. In five minutes she was at the aptly named Thermal airport, where a sleek Lockheed Lodestar sat warmed up and ready for flight. She fastened herself expertly into the pilot's seat; seconds later Jacqueline Cochran Odium. 47, an orphan who vaulted from a Tobacco Road childhood to interna tional fame as an aviatress, businesswoman (cosmetics) and the wife of Financier Floyd Odium, was flying south. It was another day in her nonstop campaign for Congress...
...northwest in the mushrooming city of Riverside (pop. 72,000), a short, coffee-skinned man with blue-black hair and an easy smile finished a hefty breakfast, stepped into his air-conditioned 1950 Buick and set off on a long round of meetings, conferences and calls aimed at Jackie Cochran's undoing. He was Dalip Singh Saund, 57, an India-born Sikh who came to the U.S. as a student and stayed on to become a citizen, a successful businessman, a California district judge and Jackie Cochran's Democratic opponent...
...holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, believes that "on just a matter of mathematics.'' i.e., a slight edge in Democratic registration, he will win-"I can feel this one coming." But local pundits doubt it. Reason: they never underestimate the power of Jackie Cochran...