Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...races for Secretary of State, State Treasurer, and State Auditor, Democratic incumbents Edward J. Cronin, John F. Kenney (not to be confused with the Senator), and Thomas J. Buckley respectively are favored to hold their seats unless there is a Republican landslide...
...party's ideological inheritance. No less apparent is the evolution of the type of cabinet member and personal adviser that Stevenson would bring with him to the White House. The candidate stands in the middle of two generations of party leaders. On the one hand are the hold-overs from the Truman Administration, older men mostly in their sixties who served in key posts up to 1952. On the other hand there is the candidate's planning staff, made up of young lawyers, governors, and senators in their forties who are latecomers to Democratic politics...
Ceiling Stand. A Christmas-tree stand that holds the tree from the ceiling instead of the floor was put on sale by Roger Products, Inc., Milwaukee. The tree will not tip over even if moppets climb it. The stand consists of a curtain rod, to which the tree trunk is fastened, with a suction cup on one end to hold the rod to the ceiling. Cost...
Vitelloni (API-Jamus). A dying art, like a rotting fruit, may hold the seed of a new birth. In Italy, as the so-called realistic cinema has decayed, a vital new talent has emerged: Federico Fellini. Last summer La Strada (The Road) revealed him to U.S. audiences as an artist of uncertain means but of startling sensibility. Vitelloni, completed in 1953, a year before La Strada, secured Fellini's fame in Europe. It is a finer piece of work than La Strada in every way. Technically, it is an elegant exercise in cinematic diction. Literarily, it is a murderous...
...both Presidential candidates have reacted similarly to the present emergency, the importance of the emergency lies in the light it throws on the successes or failings of past policy. And past policy has depended too much on Ike's likeableness, and too little on the firm ties which must hold alliances together; too much on John Foster Dulles' paper treaties, and too little on moral, ideological, and economic leadership; too much, in short, in letting the foreign policy inherited from the Democrats decay in the process of bringing the Old Guard up to date, and too little on forging those...