Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blame for the Republicans. "Our men are going to have to disown it." Benson's plan was long since disowned by such party stalwarts as Ben Franklin Jensen, eleven-term G.O.P. Congressman from southwestern Iowa's Seventh District. By last week Ben Jensen, already fighting desperately to hold the seat that was once rock-ribbed Republican, was running mainly on an anti-Benson platform, called his own Administration's farm plan "almost a complete failure ... I just don't agree with Benson. I've urged him to change his course. But it's been...
...heavy-handed agent of Top Teamster James Riddle Hoffa and indicted (bribe taking) boss of northern New Jersey's big (12,000 members) Teamster Local 560. In the local's October meeting Provenzano and his toughs squelched a band of insurgent members, railroaded through a scheme to hold elections in Jersey City a week earlier than scheduled-on Dec. 11 and 12, just before the new law's fair-election rules go into effect...
...change. Abroad, Red China, after long months of border aggression and arrogant bluster, had finally sent him a note couched in terms of common civility. China's Premier Chou En-lai proposed that the armed forces of both nations withdraw 12½ miles from the positions they now hold, and urged an early meeting to discuss frontier problems. Such a move might be advantageous to China but not to India, replied Nehru tartly, since it would mean acceptance of Chinese control over large areas claimed by India. Nevertheless, he added, "the spirit of the Chinese letter...
...where 100,000 firearms are privately owned and virtually every house has a watchdog. In his preaching, Evangelist Bhengu is careful not to set up a kind of reverse color line. White preachers, he tells his native listeners, have the word too. "When you get hold of a bottle of gin. it comes in a white bottle. It tastes good. Sometimes you pour some into a black bottle for your friends. It still tastes good. I give you the spirit of God out of a black bottle, but if it comes out of a white bottle, it is just...
...HAVEN, Nov. 20--For the first time since 1955, Yale beat the Crimson in freshman football, coming from behind to win, 28 to 24. The Yard-lings surprised the unbeaten Bulldog eleven by jumping to a 12-0 lead, but they could not hold on during a seesaw second half in which Yale piled up 19 points...