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...Equation. But when his chance to run for the Senate came in 1958, he was reluctant to take it. The U.S. was in the midst of a mild recession, and it looked like a big Democratic year. He entered the race a distinct underdog against Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan. He was helped by the usual factional row between New York's Democratic bosses and reformers, and he made devastating use of Jim Farley's scornful remark that Hogan's experience in national and international affairs "extends from the Battery to the Polo Grounds." In an upset victory, Keating squeaked...
Cast in Steel. Everyone knows that Dan'l Boone could shoot the eyes out of a potato at 500 paces. But when Montana's Lones Wigger Jr., 27, won two medals in riflery at Tokyo (one gold, one silver), it came as a distinct shock to many U.S. sports fans who never gave a thought to the U.S. shooting team. Americans used to be big on bicycle racing-but that was long ago, before the two-car family. If the settlers hadn't tried to kill off all the Indians, the U.S. might have done better...
There are a good many people who have the distinct impression that Julie Andrews' real name is Eliza Doolittle. Julie almost felt that way herself, after playing Eliza triumphantly for 31 years on Broadway and in London. So when she stopped in at her agent's offices on a visit to Hollywood last year, the first thing she brought up was a reminder that among the various film offers that might come her way, My Fair Lady took absolute precedence in her mind. The room was crowded and all heads turned toward her. "Don't you know...
Humphreyism, and modern liberalism generally, has been attacked from three distinct directions: the political right, the political left, and the "aesthetic" left. Some of the criticisms leveled are far from superficial, but the Senator's short book offers only superficial, replies...
...called because it was first recognized as a distinct virus-caused disease, different from the many other forms of viral encephalitis, in the 1933 epidemic that raged around St. Louis, when more than 1,130 people became ill and 201 died...