Word: contests
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This year's Massachusetts election boils down to a contest between two Democrats, both of whom are assured of reelection. Senator John F. Kennedy '40 has often commented "I am not running against Foster Furcolo;" however...
...Another contest has perhaps even greater state-wide significance--the fight for control of the Legislature. Never in the history of the Commonwealth have the Democrats held majorities in both the House and the Senate. This year however, they go into the election with a fairly comfortable majority in the House, and trail by the slight margin of 21 to 19 in the Senate...
Only two of the winners in the recent Football Forecast contest guessed the exact score of the Harvard-Dartmouth game. Carl D. Yager '62 and William R. Faulkner, Jr. '61 have won the prizes offered by the Harvard Book Store and Mike's Club, respectively, for predicting the varsity's 16-8 upset over the Indians...
...President headed west from Washington on his 5,284-mile congressional-election tour in such a cheerful, eupeptic and thoroughly nonpolitical mood that one reporter called it a "Give 'Em Hello Campaign." His first stop: the National Corn Picking Contest on the 400-acre Lumir Dostal Farm, ten miles northeast of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. There he stood up before a sea of 85,000 or more farmers, a tremendous forum for a campaign opener, got off to a sharp start when he proclaimed that realized net farm income was up 20% over last year and per-capita farm income...
Senator John Kennedy, Massachusetts urbanite who voted against rigid price props in 1956, preceded Eisenhower at Cedar Rapids' corn-picking contest with a stemwinding attack upon the author of flexible props, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson: "His objective may be to get the government out of the farming business, but the farmers' objective apparently is to get Mr. Benson out of the governing business...