Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas Rancher Stanley Walker, longtime (1928-35) city editor of the New York Herald Tribune, in a byliner for his old newspaper. Wrote Walker of the drought belt's 1956: "It was the year the windmills pumped air, the fish died in the dusty ponds, the jack rabbits nibbled prickly pear, the baby quail fell into the cracks in the earth, the termites ate the onions, the bankers forgot how to laugh and the rattlesnakes crawled into the living room...
...political crossroads. Ignoring seniority and the sensitivity of Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, the Democratic Steering Committee also had ignored the Keef's restless desire to sit on the prestige-weighted Foreign Relations Committee. Instead, the lone Foreign Relations opening was awarded to Massachusetts' able young (39) Jack Kennedy, narrowly beaten by Kefauver at Chicago last summer for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination. Aware of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's subtle touch in every sphere of Senate partisan activity, Columnist Fleeson saw the committee appointments as "the opening gun of an effort to put across a Johnson...
...Democrats last week were at least showing some spirit over committee assignments, Senate Republicans hewed grimly to strict seniority in passing out posts. To the lowly District of Columbia Committee went two capable newcomers, Kentucky's Thruston Morton (who also got Post Office) and New York's Jack Javits (who also got Rules). Faring only slightly better, Kentucky's other Republican, former Ambassador to India John Sherman Cooper, was awarded Labor and Rules. Yet to Indiana's Neanderthal Republican Bill Jenner, a second-termer, went the most coveted G.O.P. vacancy: a seat on the powerful...
...South West North Pass 1β 4Ω 4Δ Pass 5Δ Pass 6Δ Thus the Italians arranged to play from North, the more advantageous position. East led the ace of hearts, but failed to read West's three as a singleton, and shifted to the jack of clubs. North took the trick and went on to run out the slam. The last of 224 hands played out in a week saw the U.S. gain a few paltry points. But it was far too late. The Italians, who had beaten the best in 16 European countries...
...Died. John Gilbert (Jack) Graham, 24, moody gadgeteer who blew up 44 people, including his mother, aboard a United Air Lines DC-6B northbound from Denver on Nov. 1, 1955, with a dynamite time bomb he planted in his mother's luggage in the hope of collecting $37,500 in flight-insurance money; by the judgment of his peers (cyanide gas poisoning); in the gas chamber at the Colorado Penitentiary, Canon City. Fatalist Graham's observation before he was executed: "As far as feeling remorse for those people, I don't. I can't help...