Word: contests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican Party in California has two potential contenders for the presidency of the U.S. in 1960, both able and distinguished men. The governor's office is far too important to the welfare of the people of this state to be allowed to become a pawn in the presidential contest. No candidate should be pressed by his political advisers to seek the governorship of California for temporary use as an interim steppingstone to any other office...
Miss Tettelbach is a member of the Manhattanville Drama Club, and has appeared in many starring roles, including Hedda Gabler and Lady Macbeth, Ford said. She and a classmate won an intercollegiate Drama Contest for the "recognition scene" from Anastasia, he added...
...current contest between ideologies for the minds of men has done us, too, a signal, if unexpected, service. It has cast in sharp relief what we have and support, against the backdrop of the terrible tyranny of totalitarian governments and their ruthless domination over the lives of human beings. In defending the ways of a free people we have been forced to compare our systems, so that all who are able to learn may make a choice...
...behind was the big winner herself: Miss Universe (Peru's Gladys Zen-der-36-23½-36) dismayed the contest backers because she is just three months under 18, the minimum eligible age. But after hurried hotel-room conferences, the judges decided to let Miss Universe keep her title in spite of the technical cloud...
From their first drives, the young pros buckled down confidently to the high-pressure match play, a hole-by-hole, pair-by-pair elimination contest in which the player who takes the most holes wins the round. Ohioan Finsterwald. playing a cool game in 93° heat, won-by two holes over California's Don Whitt, 26, despite a tremendous rally by Whitt that included a startling hole-in-one on the 145-yd. 13th. Hebert, meanwhile, was hitting his approach shots with machine-gun precision, putting straight enough on Dayton's tricky greens to knock off Michigan...