Word: combating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...district "to gain laboratory-experience in politics," as he puts it. He lost by 35 votes. When war broke out in December, he tried to volunteer for military service, but was turned down because he was underweight and his eyes were weak. Disappointed in his wish to see combat, he was recruited by an old family friend, Archibald MacLeish, to serve with Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Charles Poore, and E. B. White in "that magnificent stable of writers," the Office of Facts and Figures. For seven months in 1942, Bundy wrote what he calls obscure pamphlet propaganda in Washington, meanwhile reportedly...
...rosy-cheeked freshmen are giving oldtimers the closest shaves of their lives. California's Eleventh District is a case in point. There, seven-term Republican Representative Leroy Johnson, 68, is hard pressed by 38-year-old Democratic State Assemblyman John J. McFall. Incum bent Johnson, World War I combat pilot, is running mostly on his House seniority and is reliving his long past ("I don't think they should have killed the League of Nations"). Challenger McFall is running on his own energies and ambitions, and, like many another Demo cratic House candidate, is not depending...
...unhorsing the sophisticated by sheer force of his awkward ardor. He pokes an oil princeling in the snoot, almost drowns the handsome son of the grand vizier. In a final melodramatic bid for Shala's heart. he parachutes into the Sahara Desert to engage a rival in mortal combat. Caught up in his exuberant campaign, he scarcely notices that his love has run off to another...
Last week, aghast at this odd Western way of doing things, but helpless to combat it, the Russians permitted burly Nina to go to court to answer the charge of stealing five cheap hats from London's C. & A. Modes, Ltd. (TIME, Sept. 10). "I hope you won't put it against her," the shoplifting athlete's British counsel, Mervyn Griffith-Jones, told the court, "that she failed to surrender earlier." During the four hours of testimony that followed, Nina, wearing the same fawn-colored gabardine in which she was arrested, stoutly insisted that she had paid...
...CREDIT CARD is being pushed by American Hotel Association to combat other pay-later systems, notably the 300,000-member Diners' Club, which charges hotels and restaurants 7 % of the user's bill. Association's "Universal Trav-elcard" costs the same as Diners' Club membership ($5 a year), is recognized by 6,000 of U.S. hotels, the major car-rental chains and some theaters for charging bills, cashing personal checks...