Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After an 80-m.p.h. drive to the plantation of a friend, Long suffered what doctors called "slight heart failure," but recovered sufficiently to wolf a hearty dinner of roast beef, chicken and dumplings, corn, black-eyed peas, salad, beer, buttermilk and coffee. ¶ Raging at the wholesale desertion of his followers ("They're takin' a runout powder!"), Long began firing dozens of the unfaithful with the speed of a Cuban revolutionary tribunal. His worries increased when five other candidates, led by New Orleans' able Mayor deLesseps Morrison, announced their willingness to run for Governor against him. Meanwhile...
...growing strength, got some Californians to let Warren know that they would stick with him only in the first ballot, then swing to Ike. The threatened rebellion never came off, because Eisenhower got the nomination on the first ballot. But Earl Warren, bitterly disappointed, according to one friend, "to his dying day will believe that Nixon sold...
...last, in the mirrored, gold and white Empire Hall of the royal palace, the burgomaster of Brussels performed the civil ceremony. Then the entourage-one King, two ex-Kings, nine princes, twelve princesses and the royal family's one private guest, Bishop Fulton Sheen of Manhattan (a close friend of Leopold's and Liliane's)-drove through the cheering streets to the five-century-old St. Gu dule Church. There a shaky but beautiful bride, alternating between stifled giggles and sobs, and a grim, nervous but handsome groom in a resplendent new uniform of a naval commander...
...drew hordes of females straining for a glimpse of his rugged Scandinavian features. "Ingo" went deep-sea fishing and just missed catching a sailfish, frolicked in a saltwater pool with pretty Birgit Lundgren. She squelched talk that she is Ingo's fiancee, characterized herself as just a good friend who travels with Johansson to take care of his secretarial requirements. Businessman Johansson's view of any future bouts: he will fight "anywhere-as long as there are enough people and enough money...
Died. Charles Starkweather, 20, mass murderer who in 1958 shot, stabbed and clubbed to death ten people, including friends, foes and strangers, in a wild, inexplicable, three-day spree with his 14-year-old girl friend; by electrocution; in Lincoln...