Word: feud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Feud & Whimsy. Some states, come November 1962, will rely on a constitutional safety valve: the at-large election. Hawaii, Texas, Michigan and Ohio, each with one additional Congressman to pick, will probably choose him by statewide election. But in other states, because redistricting is hopelessly snarled between a Governor and a legislature of different parties or because redistricting has been blocked by voter petitions, all Congressmen may be forced to run at large. Minnesota, losing one of nine, Pennsylvania (three of 30), Illinois (one of 25) and Arkansas (two of six) may all solve current impasses in this fashion...
...Communists and Castroites, who threaten every hemispheric democratic government, burned U.S. Ambassador Teodoro Moscoso's car. In Chile, where famine breeds the same Red-led peasant leagues that already plague Brazil, rioters smashed windows to protest Stevenson's visit. In hapless Bolivia, he witnessed a continuing feud between the government and tin miners that ended in five dead. And in Peru, leftist students who had declared Stevenson persona non grata were dispersed by police with tear...
...gaudy, snub-snouted racers that roared past the fluttering starter's flag in last week's Indianapolis 500 rolled on identical Firestone tires and were powered by identical 350-h.p. Meyer-Drake Offenhauser engines.* In the family feud that followed, what counted were the driver's skill, the speed of his pit crew-and pure luck...
...matters have prevented the FCC from using its powers to assure that the country's television stations do, indeed, "serve in the public interest." Power-politicking Congressmen and broadcasters eager to continue the profitable status quo should not be permitted to obstruct the necessary reform because of a personal feud...
Relations between Harvard and the local community are not improving, and the traditional town-gown feud is still a serious obstacle to projects and desires vital to the University...