Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a clenched fist and welcomes civic redevelopment projects with an open hand (TIME, Nov. 4), ignored feeble Republican attempts to trip him on such issues as Little Rock and a local trolley strike (typically, both strikers and management came to Dave Lawrence's defense), rolled to a fourth term by the largest plurality (59,511) of his career. ¶ Mayor Richard C. Lee, another Democrat busy remodeling a city, won reelection in New Haven, Conn. (pop. 165,500) by the largest plurality New Haven has ever given any candidate, national or local: 41,694 votes. Dick...
Sandbags Down. As the Algerian rebellion went into its fourth year, the French counted 45,000 deaths (including 4,920 French military). The FLN has admitted temporary defeat in its campaign of terrorism in Algeria's larger towns-curfews remain, but sandbags and barbed wire are coming down, and life has been slowly returning to normal. But outside the cities, the FLN boasted an organized strength of 100,000 men, and a French army officer conceded FLN was "better armed and better trained than ever before." The reality, as always, was hard to sort out from the claims. Last...
Almost one-fourth of the world's people develop myopia; up to 15% of U.S. schoolchildren are afflicted. So far, eye doctors have been at a loss for any means to correct the condition or to arrest its advance. Last week, in a cautious preliminary report, the experts suggested that a corrective may have been found by chance in the wearing of contact lenses...
...second Brown team engineered the winners' next touchdown drive. This time the play was a fourth-down screen pass from Nick Pannes to fullback Bob Topping. Topping received the ball on his own 40 and thundered down the left side-line to the end zone, escorted all the way by two Bruin blockers...
...third period was scoreless, but Brown tallied soon after the start of the fourth. This touchdown was scored on as pretty an option play as Harvard fans are likely to see for quite some time...