Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national nose count will be 180 million, up 29 million from 1950. On this basis, booming California, which gained seven seats after the 1950 census, will probably get another seven, boosting its total to 37. This would put it just behind New York (now 43, but slated to drop to 40), and well ahead of Pennsylvania (30 now, 27 after 1960). Other probable gainers: Florida, with three; Michigan and Texas, two each; Arizona, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio and Oregon, one each. Other losers: Massachusetts and Arkansas (two), Maine, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi...
...command ship Taconic about 6 a.m., keeps on the move until past midnight, has found spare time only to write four letters to London to his second wife-last January he married Josephine Kenney, the widow of a naval officer who had served with him in BuPers-and to drop down from admiral's country to see an occasional shipboard movie. Title of one movie: The Desperate Hours. He presides over a flood of operational, intelligence and logistics reports that range from one end of his command at the Navy base at Port Lyautey, Morocco, to the other...
Edmondson got only a drop of professional political support. Just one Congressman-Ed Edmondson, who happens to be Howard's older brother-along with two of the 165 state legislators, rallied to his cause, though a surprising flock of younger men around the state seemed eager to campaign for him. Smart money gave him no better than third place in the eleven-man first primary. Odds-on favorite: Dry-Minded W. P. (Bill) Atkinson, 52, Midwest City millionaire builder and hand-picked candidate of incumbent Teetotaler Raymond Gary. Atkinson was shocked to see Newcomer Edmondson beat...
Covering the low-pressure revolt back in Beirut, an army of 200 sport-shirted newsmen found that the Lebanese rebels were accessible through a phone call from the Hotel St. Georges bar. Rebel headquarters was just a short cab ride away and any correspondent could drop past for tea with Rebel Leader Saeb Salam...
...Bail. Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson ('17), stoutly denies that he was one of the shop's nicotine-tarnished idlers, admits only that "once or twice a year (not often enough to be recognized) I did drop in to take a free pipeful of Cake Box Mixture from the open box on the counter. I tried to give the impression that, if the sample were to my taste, I would order Cake Box Mixture in bulk." Epicure Lucius Beebe ('27) shunned cigarettes, which caused users to emerge from Leavitt & Peirce "shamelessly trailing clouds of Sweet Caporal and leering...