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...conventions. During the 1958 campaign alone he traveled 25,000 miles in 19 states. Between times he managed to cover Massachusetts like a quilt, post volunteer "secretaries" in more than 300 of the state's 351 cities and towns, and win a spectacular 870,000-vote plurality over hapless Republican Vincent Celeste (Kennedy lost $10 to a campaign worker by betting that he could not break...
...public well. Next to the well stood the ruins of the ancient temple that served Kukang's 180 families. In the rubble of shattered homes, the villagers had found 18 of their number, dead or maimed. Others have died since-one family of six in its bunker-the hapless civilian victims of the grotesque Red China assault that takes place every other...
...Army (5-0-1)-ran all over hapless Colgate...
...Archbishop's Plan. It was a bitter beginning for Britain's hapless "adventure in partnership," the plan to freeze the status of Cyprus for seven years, during which the Turkish and Greek governments would be drawn into running the island's day-to-day affairs in a kind of tridominium. The Greeks were dead set against any plan to get Turkey into the act. As the deadline for the plan's start approached...
...Having sneaked to a fourth term through this legal loophole, Denny Roberts is now plagued by party dissidence and public weariness with his erratic conduct in office. In the primary, Roberts had to run against his ambitious lieutenant governor, Armand H. Cote, won by only 11,000 votes. And hapless Governor Roberts still has to explain why he fired a telegram (also signed by ten other Governors) to Washington last February demanding a federal tax cut from President Eisenhower, while simultaneously asking his own Rhode Island taxpayers to cough up another $10 million...