Word: guesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Screen. Returning to California, Pat Brown still seemed far from discouraged. His dutiful state party officials announced that an official Brown-for-President organization would be set up some time soon, tagged him "one of the top three of the top ten potential candidates." Said Brown: "I guess that puts me in the winter book. If I entered as a favorite son, I couldn't get on television...
...could only hope to exert real influence over the next government if the Tories and the Socialists wound up in a near draw. The real question was whether what votes they got in the marginal constituencies would be "stolen" from Labor or the Tories. The pundits' tentative guess: more from Labor...
...Says Dr. Frank J. Malina, one of the original rocketeers: "Arnold was a very quiet person who came and went in a mysterious way. He told me he lived in Burbank and rode a bicycle between his room and Caltech-about twelve miles. He said: 'Your guess is as good as mine as to the source of these bills.' " Arnold, who is now a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada, still will not or cannot say where he got J.P.L.'s founding money...
...wind-lashed shore of Lake Maracaibo last week, ground was broken for a new, $3,000,000 flour mill. Most of the Venezuelans who watched would have needed only one guess, if they did not know already, at the name of the man responsible for building the mill (jointly with Minneapolis' Pillsbury Co.). He is Eugenio Mendoza Goiticoa, 52, a ranking example of the new, still small and largely unsung breed of Latin American industrialists who believe not only in good profit, but in productive private industry, well-treated, self-respecting labor, and-even more notable-in philanthropy...
...thieves were hired by one such determined art lover. "That stuff will be hot for the next 100 years," said Toronto Inspector John Gillespie, as police dispatched photographs of the stolen masterpieces throughout the world. "I don't know how they will get rid of it." Best guess: the thieves have merely kidnaped the six pictures, plan to hold them until the insurance company offers a big enough ransom for their return...