Word: fining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on your fine exposition of the problem of undernourishment and the emerging peoples as carried in your Nov. 30 issue...
...more than 300 delegate votes (mostly Southern) at the convention's all-important first ballot, hope that this will be enough to head off any bolt to Adlai Stevenson. And if, in the course of this power play, Johnson should finesse the nomination for himself, that would be fine. At a press conference in Des Moines last week, Lyndon said: "I am not a candidate and I do not intend to be. I do not say that I would not serve my country if the convention should do the unusual and select someone who isn't a candidate...
...every evening through the years at the McLaughlin mansion on Doctor Delgado Street. For his share of the family fortune, Hector got a monopoly on peanut oil, and with the aid of prohibitive tariffs on other cooking oils, he got rich. As youth faded, he developed modest hobbies : collecting fine horses at his Engombe Ranch outside Ciudad Trujillo, collecting shoes (he has more than 200 pairs). The dictator tapped him for the presidency in 1952, but unobtrusive Hector had no pretension that the job gave him power. "Don't ask me; I'm just the President," he tells...
...weight throw, B.U.'s John Lawlor came through with a heave of 61 ft., 5 3/4 in. to take first place and set meet and Cage marks. Stan Doten of the Crimson, finishing second, set new Harvard and University indoor marks with a 57 ft. 3/4 in. toss. A fine 56 ft., 1 3/4 in. effort by the varsity's Ed Bailey was lost in the commotion...
Frank Yeomans took the dash in 4.8, and Pat Liles turned in a fine 1:15.3 clocking to win the 600, for two more Crimson firsts. In a race of teammates, the varsity's Gus Schumacher edged Art Cahn in a close 2:19.3 1000. Mark Mullin ran his old nemesis Art Freeman into the ground to take the mile, and Greg Baldwin added five points in the two-mile. Bob Downs won the broad jump, and the Crimson totaled 10 points in the relays...