Word: glens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Idaho: Eisenhower easily. Old Guard Senator Herman Welker is challenged by Democrat Frank Church - but Church is hurt, and is likely to be beaten, by write-in competition from left-wing Democrat Glen Taylor, beaten in the primary but still a threat to some 5,000 Church votes...
...UNDERSIZED? LET ME MAKE A DIFFERENT MAN OF YOU!" Wee Geordie's heart gave a glorious thump as he read the ad in the Drumfechan Clarion. He was undersized indeed; so wee a bairn of ten years old was hardly to be seen in all the glen. At school he had to stand on a box to reach the blackboard, and when he went walking with bonny Jean, she was half a head taller than he. That very night, with the courage of desperation, the thrifty young Scotsman scraped his last bob from the back of the bureau drawer...
...Wiley's political illness as an acute case of globalitis-for Wiley, as ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had doggedly supported President Eisenhower's internationalist policies. The prescription was a ruthless purge, and the man nominated to bring it off in the primaries was Glen R. Davis, 41, a handsome, smooth-talking fifth-term Congressman who believes in the Bricker amendment and in tapering off on foreign aid. Old Alex Wiley left the convention in tears (TIME, June 4), but he stubbornly decided to run anyway...
...filling the last empty space in a series of cherished stamps, physicists have now found the last subatomic particle that is needed to make the universe neatly and electrically symmetrical. The Radiation Laboratory of the University of California announced last week that a team of physicists (Drs. Bruce Cork, Glen Lambertson, Oreste Piccioni, William Wenzel) has identified the antineutron, which differs from ordinary neutrons in the opposite direction of its magnetic field...
...Even though the Sports Car Club of America thought the new track at Watkins Glen, N.Y. too hazardous for car racing, its members refused to back out of the ninth annual Sports Car Grand Prix. Taking it easy on the loose gravel, the drivers spun through a shortened. 50-mile grind, avoided serious accident as George Constantine. a Massachusetts Civil Defense director, pushed his D-Jaguar to a careful victory...