Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, Brazilian politicians have firmly believed that the way to get elected was to be either leftwing, nationalistic, or both. Now the traditional also-ran party-the U.D.N., a middle-reading, free-enterprise, pro-U.S. party-is coming up fast, as evidenced in Brazil's recent mid-term elections. For a look at the change and a new dark horse, see THE HEMISPHERE, Coming...
...right-to-work). Handley is throwing the book at his opponent, Evansville Mayor R. (for Rupert) Vance Hartke, 39, accusing him of running a corrupt administration in his home town and of being a tool of U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther. Newspaper polls show Hartke ahead, but Handley gaining fast and within overtaking distance...
...Chapman ("Chappy") Revercomb, 63, who served one Senate term (1943-48) before he was elected in 1956 to fill out the term of the late Harley Kilgore, is a handsome grandfather, a tireless, bassoon-throated campaigner, a conservative flailing at apathetic Republican voters. His opponent is conservative, too, but fast-moving, breezy Robert C. Byrd, 40, father of two girls (aged 21 and 17), is hard to beat. A former grocer and three-term Congressman, he shrewdly turns on the corn at country meetings, singing and playing the fiddle (Bile Them Cabbages Down), recites inspirational poetry (God Give...
...bounds on the Penn five, with only six minutes remaining. The Quakers remained bottled up in their own territory for the rest of the game, as the Crimson defense, playing very well despite the torrential rain, which began falling late in the third period, kept Penn's fast-running backs completely in check...
Under the cheesy chinoiserie the plot is the same dreary triangle that has already served so many so badly. There is a fast and loose charmer who tempts the hero, but it is the little snow pea his wise old father had chosen who gets him in the end. All this is unfolded in an atmosphere that varies between Mr. Hammerstein's old Norman Rockwell whole someness and a new, Broadway, meretriciousness of second-rate sick jokes and falsie gags. Mechandizing the cuteness of a whole covey of little children (including one with a hula hoop...