Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THE year of the Sputniks is followed by the U.S. election year 1958, and the prospect of political wrangling over the responsibility for defense shortfalls has already cast its shadow over the session of Congress that begins next week. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Ready for the Brawl. One point of U.S...
Democracy's Wonder. Politically, the second session of the 85th Congress has all of the volatile ingredients of an election year with a couple of H-bombs added. The Southerners, who were infuriated by the President's use of troops in Little Rock, hold powerful positions on military...
Pudgy, nearsighted General Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 43, already one of the world's senior dictators, last week began another five years as President of Venezuela-barring, of course, assassination or a coup by his military juniors. He won the term in a plebiscite that gave...
During the supposedly secret conference, Charlie Halleck and Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart bellowed their defiance across the table at Indiana's Republican State Chairman Robert Matthews and Governor Harold W. Handley, who is hungrily eying the U.S. Senate seat that William E. Jenner will put up for...
¶ Lord Rokeby (born 1712) had a yen for recitations, beards and baths (fresh or salt). "With commendable firmness," he would remain in the ocean "until he fainted and had to be withdrawn forcibly." At his country seat, Lord Rokeby built a bath "rendered tepid by the rays of the...