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...years ago when he stepped in front of a television camera in 1970 to challenge Orval Faubus in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Faubus went down to defeat, although he had served as Governor for six terms, and Bumpers had so little money that he had to sell his dairy herd for $95,000 to pay campaign and family expenses. Then it was the turn of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, the Republican incumbent. In the November election, Rockefeller called Bumpers "a vaguely pleasant fellow with one speech, a shoeshine and a smile." The pleasant fellow attacked Rockefeller for his frequent absences from...
...country) offers almost nothing to think about. Hannah's response to her groom's welcome is to teach him table manners. He makes some progress toward civility, but he keeps getting distracted. Late in the film he is still capable of driving a herd of cattle through her vegetable garden purely as an exercise in cussedness...
...though Wagner, Stott & Co., specialists in the stock, bought 35,000 shares for its own account, the price of the stock continued to drift down to a Wednesday close of 46½. By week's end it had recovered only to 50⅞. Veteran Wall Streeters blamed a herd instinct among institutional money managers to unload immediately a stock that had been publicly labeled risky-or, in other words, panic...
When the dust had lifted, Harvard was entering the seventh inning protecting a precarious 12-10 lead, trying to hold off an inspired herd of rampaging Jumbos...
...destruction of University Road apartments for construction of the Kennedy School of Government.12When the police made their Bust, the first thing they did was to herd reporters and photographers into a single room so they could not watch the subsequent action. This was the last picture Crimson photographer Tim Carison was able to take of the Bust...