Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jovial President Eisenhower last week sliced into a 3-ft. birthday cake modeled after the White House (with a putting green on the roof) and said he was happy to be 64. Explained Ike to a Denver birthday-luncheon: "Considering the year I was born, if I weren't 64 I'd be dead...
...Ewart, now campaigning for the U.S. Senate, last week observed that no Republican senatorial candidate was more than 65*(his own age). Perhaps D'Ewart was struck with the number of superannuated Democratic candidates for the Senate: Kentucky's Alben Barkley (76), Rhode Island's Theodore Green (87), Iowa's Guy Gillette (75)) Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney (69). West Virginia's Matthew Neely (79), Virginia's A. Willis Robertson (67), Nebraska's Keith Neville (70), South Carolina's Edgar Brown (66), Kansas' George McGill (75) and, of course...
...Communists rallied around congressional candidates running in Vargas' name; pro-U.S. moderates backed Cafe Filho. But not even Vargas' rabble-rousing former Labor Minister, Joao ("Jango") Goulart, succeeded in winning his race for Senator, and as the votes piled up, the net effect was a green light for Cafe Filho to steer Brazil down the middle of the road. ¶ Guatemala's President Carlos Castillo Armas, who seized power in June's anti-Communist revolution, was legally confirmed in office. By having the voters asked out loud whether they wanted him to continue in office...
...with "a paralyzing beam of light." Some Martians were blue, others were yellow or pink. A traveling salesman of the Cotes-du-Nord saw a wonderful sight: a deep rose flying cigar from which stepped a zebra-striped Martian. As he alighted, he changed color, chameleonlike, from yellow to green...
...other men who placed for the Crimson were Dave McLean, sixth: Phil Williams seventh; and Paul Beck eighth. Bill Morris and Bob Holmes also crossed the line before the green's next runner...