Word: flings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vacant. In Fall River, Mass., Frank Medeiros was fined $175 after he carefully got into a taxicab at the end of an all-night fling, drove it home himself when he discovered the driver was missing...
Political Career. After a brief fling at teaching political science at the universities of Louisiana and Minnesota, Humphrey orbited naturally and eagerly to politics, was elected mayor of Minneapolis in 1945 at the age of 34. A thoroughgoing and effective reformer, he vigorously cleaned up the city, at the same time began a prudent purge of Communists and Wallace Progressives from Minnesota's lively Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party. In 1948 he was elected to the Senate, descended on Washington as one of the brashest and most brilliant of the Fair Deal's Young Turks. In a decade...