Word: duels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eggheads, Arise!" From those dissimilar starts, Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver last week began their duel in the sunshine-the preferential primary fight for California's 68 votes at the Democratic National Convention. At the beginning it did not seem much of a fight. Almost all of the party leaders and Democratic money in California are pledged for Stevenson. Kefauver's supporters could only resort to an appeal over the heads of the leaders; they had to cancel a scheduled television show at week's end because they did not have enough money...
...duel begins. The interrogator goes over the cardinal's past with a mind magnetized to attract every particle of experience that carries a negative charge. "I am proud," the cardinal smilingly confesses. "All my life [I have] shirked nothing, ducked nothing, overcome everything." All day no rest, all night no sleep. One day an old woman is wheeled into the interrogation chamber on a stretcher: it is his mother. She will be sent to the research hospital, the doctor says, unless there is a confession. The exhausted cardinal breaks down, recovers, refuses. "I do not love my mother...
Exit Ludwig. A duel in the Bois de Boulogne (afterwards, Lola looked smashing in her bereaved-mistress' weeds) set her firmly in the center of what would now be called cafe society. But her real career began when she was engaged to dance in Munich and bewitched old King Ludwig (her bodice tore at just the right moment and place). Lola moved into the posh palace he built for her in Munich and prepared to run the country. Then, as now, advanced ideas were a prime source of self-advertisement, and Lola had absorbed a set of "bold...
...course of weapons-testing, it was inevitable that the U.S. Army sooner or later would pit its prized Nike (rhymes with Mikey) antiaircraft guided missile against the Air Force's pet Martin Matador jet bomber missile, an "uninhabited"' aircraft. The Nike-Matador aerial duel was held at White Sands Proving Grounds, N.Mex. this fall-and it promptly set off a ground war between Army and Air Force pressagents...
...feet were "firmly fixed in the clouds," he probably should have been. Pierre Fresnay's screen portrayal of the nearsighted and bewhiskered French composer is delightful. He ambles blithely into a ladies' dressing room, offers a job to a status (Venus), and accidentally challenges a Russian general to a duel--all because he can't see, and doesn't much care...