Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, the name of Sam Rayburn was missing from the ballot in Texas' Fourth Congressional District. The cotton-and-cattle-country Fourth was Mister Sam's undisputed personal fief; the Texas legislature kept it the sixth smallest in the U.S. (its population is 213,374; by comparison, a neighboring district contains 951,527 Texans) to make fence-tending easy for the aging Speaker, who died last November at 79. Six candidates, including a lone Republican, campaigned to succeed him in a special election. Nobody polled a majority, so the two who led the field will face each other...
...date. The prettiest Murphy of them all is said to be called 'Happy' Murphy. She is young, in her early 30s, and a country-loving girl. Already people are comparing her to the Duchess of Windsor when she was plain Mrs. Simpson. However, this seems a strange comparison, for the two women have nothing much in common-except perhaps energy. Mrs. Murphy has worked tirelessly for the Rockefeller Foundation...
...less an issue in its way is that posed by Arthur S. Trace Jr.'s What Ivan Knows That Johnny Doesn't (Random House; $3.95), a chilling comparison of Russian and U.S. textbooks that pegs the vocabulary of Ivan's typical first-grade reader at 2,000 words and Johnny's at 300, owing to the U.S. mystique of "vocabulary control." Equally indignant about U.S. reading deficiencies is Charles C. Walcutt's Tomorrow's Illiterates (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.95), and it has the added virtue of describing key reading reforms throughout the country. Critics...
...horses. Over a seven-month period. Bjorklund vaccine will be injected into 100 Swedish volunteers between 60 and 70, an age group of high cancer incidence. At the end of the year, if the volunteers show more of what Dr. Bjorklund believes to be cancer antibodies than a comparison group of 20 unvaccinated persons, the tests will be widened to include 1,200, then 12,000 volunteers...
...Saviour of Africa." To associates, he said recently: "I am like the man who walked into Jerusalem 2,000 years ago and got the people to follow him." A newspaper has published a new lexicon of titles for Nkrumah that make royal rankings seem pale by comparison. Among the titles...