Word: contests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...claim that his Washington hotel room had been bugged by a former investigator for the subcommittee, but, although his claim was true, the contempt charge remained on the docket. Last week, when he came up for trial, Goldfine, 68, switched his plea from not guilty to nolo contendere (no contest), threw himself on the mercy of the court. Said Federal Judge James Morris: Goldfine's plea is a "complete vindication of the committee. [It] admits all of the relevant facts that are raised by the issue of pertinency and the right and power of the committee...
Thus by the time-honored signals of the Old Dominion, Almond gained not by statistics, but because moderation had scored in open contest against the worst the diehards could do. Come next session of the legislature, the narrow majorities by which the moderate school program squeaked through last April will probably be enlarged by the votes of legislators who once were simply afraid to vote for any bill that might stir up Byrd's anger...
...playing a guitar and singing the hillbilly songs he had learned from his U.S. Army buddies. Between 1951 and 1953 he rode a Finnish tanker from Odessa to Mexico to the Far East. Once, he remembers, his ship got to the U.S. where he won an amateur-night contest singing Spanish songs he had learned in Mexico. "I sang Mexican songs in the U.S. and hillbilly songs in Mexico," he explains. "No use pushing your luck...
...granted, even to the inclusion of whatever touched his lips. Before the laughing gods allowed him to rescind his wish, Midas almost died of thirst. As for his taste in music, Midas had the long, pointed ears of an ass, according to the Greeks, because in judging a musical contest he had preferred Pan to Apollo...
...statewide beauty contest, which entitled her to compete for the Miss Universe title this week at the international beauty contest in Long Beach, Calif., and her archbishop had said that if she did, he would deny the sacraments of Communion and confession to both her and her mother (her father is not Catholic) for "an indefinite period of time." Philadelphia-born Archbishop Edwin Vincent Byrne, 67, like many another prelate, feels that females should be well covered in public. At his insistence, the beauty contest won by Sue Ingersoll held its bathing-suit judging in private, with only members...