Word: curiousity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their wives on the payroll. Vermont's William H. Meyer, reported paying a nepotic pittance of a salary: his wife, Bertha, gets only $4,047.37 a year. Others, notably Iowa's Democratic Leonard Wolf, are more generous: wife Marilyn Wolf collects $13.344.62 a year -an amount, by curious coincidence, that is the exact maximum permitted for any one congressional staffer...
Cooperation administrator. In the curious fashion of Washington politics, the double disappointments were intertwined...
...magazine. The Big Table, and then stalked out. After a late night on the town, they made a mystical pilgrimage to Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo (which has no wart hog and no laughing bowl), turned up next evening at the Sherman Hotel, read more poetry for a curious crowd of 700 (who paid $1 and up), this session sponsored by Chicago's Shaw Society...
...center of political activity in Havana today is the head-quarters of Fidel Castro on the 23rd floor of the luxurious Havana Hilton. The spacious, plushly-furnished lobby of the swank hotel presents the observer with a curious and incongruous sight. It seems strange to see the bearded rebel soldiers, armed to the teeth, rubbing shoulders and sometimes tolerantly conversing with the Hilton's exclusive clientele, who come from all over the world. But after a while no one seems out-of-place in the crowd; not even the pretty young Cuban bobby-soxers who come with their cameras...
Washington figures wise in the ways of newsmen are the most polished practitioners of the TV headline art. Ex-Teamster Boss Dave Beck first admitted his curious loans from the union on CBS's Face the Nation, thereby softening the effect when the loans were brought up later by the Senate's McClellan committee. It was on ABC's College News Conference that Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler announced that Southern segregationists might be forced out of the party...