Word: dependability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Again, Chamberlain has no time for the formal political rallies on which many candidates depend. "I think rallies are useless," he says. "The people who show up at rallies are already on my side, and I'm just plowing the same field over again. I have to spend my time just talking with people, one by one." Laying out his campaign, Chamberlain figures that he can meet and talk to some 200 voters a day and, allowing for 50 days of active campaigning from Labor Day to Election Day, reach 10,000 people...
...tenth term by running strong in small towns and carrying 50.7% of the vote against Farmer-Lawyer Steven Carter, 43. This year LeCompte has retired, but Democrat Carter, still trying, is making headway among farmers caught in the cost-price squeeze and in the squeezed small towns that depend on farmers. To replace LeCompte, the Republicans nominated personable John H. Kyi, 39, hard-driving farmer, newscaster and co-owner of a men's clothing store in the Davis County seat of Bloomfield (pop. 2,600). Kyi has worked hard on the labor issue, advocating a program to free rank...
...earth and sea his domain. To get closer to both, he moved out of Manhattan, where he had been a successful illustrator, and bought a farm in Westport, Conn., began raising chickens. When that venture failed, he tried his hand at being a lobsterman. Art, he decided, should not depend so much on natural forms as on substituting equivalent images for them. He was searching for a means of expression that would not depend on representation, that "should have order, size, intensity, spirit, nearer to the music...
...other leader of a Western democracy could point to so overwhelming a mandate. It freed De Gaulle of the need to depend on any unwieldy combination of quarreling political parties in forging his Fifth Republic. Much more important, to a man so stiff-necked about legality, he need no longer regard himself as the creation of the disgruntled cabal of paratroopers and Algerian settlers who last May provided the fuel that blew up the Fourth Republic. The mandate was his own. His power was legitimate...
Yule Hog. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Audrey Lenz, 24, sued for divorce, charged that her three children had to depend on the St. Vincent de Paul Society for Christmas presents, while her husband, John, 28 bought himself an electric train...