Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rocky's retreat came in the nick of time. Last week's Gallup polls showed the Vice President well ahead and gaining when matched against either the Democrats' first runner, Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, or the noncampaigning ghostly challenger, Adlai Stevenson...
Unsurprisingly, Californian Nixon's greatest strength was in the Midwest and Far West, where he was running 55 to 45 ahead of Jack Kennedy. In Kennedy's own East, the gap was narrower, but Nixon led Kennedy, 52 to 48. Only in the South was Kennedy out front, but in that traditionally Democratic heartland, his margin was close enough to make a Democratic handicapper's hands grow clammy: Nixon, 48%; Kennedy...
...that he could claim as many years as a private citizen as in public life), turned 91. But that was too close to 92, so he has now raised his goal to an even century mark. To the usual wearisome questions about his longevity, "Cactus Jack" Garner gave an unlikely answer: it seemed to have something to do with his daily custom of eating grapefruit. But some citizens of his home town, Uvalde, Texas, suspect that Garner did not really give up his cigars and whisky last year, as he had dourly announced. No cigars, maybe, but it was quite...
...Jewish patriots. When Ben-Hur refuses, Messala condemns him to certain death as a galley slave and shuts up his mother (Martha Scott) and sister (Cathy O'Donnell) in a pestilential dungeon. Ben-Hur is freed from the galley, taken to Rome and adopted by a Roman admiral (Jack Hawkins) whose life he has saved. As soon as possible, he goes back to Palestine, hears that his mother and sister are dead, enters against Messala in the chariot races and rides him into the ground. But Messala has his vengeance. With his dying breath he tells Ben-Hur that...
...annual Heptagonal Games in New York were tragic. Depived of Fitzgerald and Jack Benjamin, who incurred what seemed to be stress fractures, the Crimson placed no one higher than 20th...