Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favor of the rigged program. Most of them involve prizes and/or money. Person to Person didn't and doesn't. But it isn't even "vaguely" rigged. I yield to no one in my admiration for Mr. Stanton, but this is really a little too much...
...missed a chance to mispronounce Robsion's name "Ro-Ben-son." Combs's running mate for Lieutenant Governor, onetime Louisville Mayor Wilson Watkins Wyatt, 53, one of the founders of the left-wing Americans for Democratic Action, and Adlai Stevenson's 1952 campaign manager, piled an even bigger majority (498,278 to 308,622) upon Ballad Singer Pleaz Mobley, a G.O.P. candidate with songs aplenty but little political appeal...
...that Salt Lake City would shrivel under the leadership of a man behind the times, the voters sized up Maverick Lee's established reputation for honesty and economy, ignored labor's support of Jenkins, gave Lee a plurality of 6,000 votes. Lee's comeback impressed even anti-Lee Republicans enough to welcome him back into the fold, thus paved the way for "Brack" to look ahead once again either to the Governor's chair or 1962's Senate race...
...abilities during his first term and enhanced his position when he rang in a warm San Francisco welcome for Nikita Khrushchev (cabled Khrushchev: "Had I been a citizen of your beautiful city, I would undoubtedly have voted for you"), had the city in his pocket virtually from the beginning, even though registration is overwhelmingly Democratic. In his wild-swinging campaign, Opponent Wolden accused Christopher's administration of permitting San Francisco to become national headquarters of "organized sex deviates." The charge, which cosmopolitan San Francisco considered bad manners, queered Wolden with most of his fellow Democrats and all the city...
...Some local men, searching for escaped slaves, ask Huck if his companion is "white or black." Huck invokes the old tall-tale weapon, and convinces the men that his companion is his smallpox-afflicted "pop." The tale takes on fantastic proportions, but the authorities take in every word and even give Huck two $20 gold pieces before fleeing the pestilence...