Word: contests
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...puts it. "When I was growing up," he says, "we had a succession of listless, weary old ladies performing kitchen chores, so I learned to cook almost in self-defense." He learned so well, in fact, that at the age of eleven he entered a newspaper recipe contest. "Cooking was considered a sissy art back then," he recalls. "I didn't want my friends to find out that I cooked, so I entered the recipes under the name of Miss Minnie Demarest...
...Among the treaty's terms: Americans now imprisoned in Mexico would be eligible for transfer to U.S. jails, provided they had more than six months to serve on their sentences, had not been convicted of a political offense or breaking immigration laws and, a key condition, would not contest their Mexican convictions in U.S. courts. Parallel provisions would hold for the 1,200 Mexicans locked...
...release on writs of habeas corpus, contending that Mexican courts do not have the authority to imprison anyone in the U.S. Some are even expected to appeal on grounds that the U.S.-Mexican treaty forced them to waive their constitutional rights of due process when they pledged not to contest their convictions in U.S. courts. One big problem: if such legal challenges are sustained, there will probably be no more prisoner transfers...
...know why," she says, "I just think it's a pretty neat sport." Carla, 5 ft. 1 in. and 139 Ibs., entered a punt, pass and kick competition sponsored by the Ford Motor Co. Beating out some 28 boys in the initial rounds to make the area contest-a feat accomplished by only two other girls in 17 years of competition -Carla bruised some male egos. "How am I gonna tell them a girl beat me?" wailed one young M.C.P. Last week the boys got a temporary respite; Carla was edged out just short of the semifinals. Wait till...
DiCara believes the upcoming campaign will be the "classic political contest." It will be a contest between "different generations and different attitudes," he said. The average age of DiCara's campaign staff will be in the mid-20s, he said Crane has been State Treasurer for 14 years...