Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Palmiro Togliatti, but that he had no chance of becoming Premier. And a vote for the Red-lining-left-wing Socialists was just as clearly a vote for the party's leader, Pietro Nenni. But the Christian Democrats, the nation's biggest party, campaigned with no face except the postered memory of their late great postwar statesman Alcide de Gasperi, and the promise of "progress without adventure" along the established line of the party's pro-Western, middle-road record. It was not until last week, a month after the elections, that the 12.5 million Italians...
...summer. Unforgettable in any year, the hot spell of 1958 was worse than any for a decade in New Delhi, half a century in Andhra Pradesh. The thermometer hit 121°F.* in the pilgrim center of Bhadrachalam; it hovered around 100°F. in Delhi even at night. Except in the cool hills to which only a few could escape, a relentless sun licked the country like a flamethrower. And from the sun came tragedy...
...Except for pitchers, who will be picked by the managers: New York's Casey Stengel and Milwaukee's Fred Haney...
...Governor would be allocated a maximum of 45 minutes each between now and the primary on Aug. 7. Slightly more generous, WLAC-TV allowed them one hour of prime evening time, half an hour of nonpremium time. Candidates for the U.S. Senate and House will get the same allowance. Except for spot announcements, candidates for local and state legislative offices may buy no time at all. Nashville's third station, WSIX-TV, was turning down all candidates' bids for time until it decided on its own version of rationing...
Theoretically, every doctor has a physician in attendance 24 hours a day, i.e., by long-standing tradition, any doctor will treat any other doctor free of charge. But Dr. Charles E. McArthur of Olympia, Wash. noted that standards of physicians' medical care (except in university hospitals and a few private clinics) are among the nation's lowest-because of neglect. One big reason for such neglect, suggested Dr. McArthur, chairman of the A.M.A.'s section on general practice, is that smalltown G.P.s have limited access to specialists. And because each one feels that he "lives...