Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than half of all Catholics would be willing to jump party lines to vote for a candidate of their own faith. Asking Catholics alone if they might vote for a Catholic of a political party other than their own, Gallup got these results...
...margin of 57% to 43%. By deducting from the totals those voters who say they will oppose a Catholic under any circumstances, Gallup evened the odds: Kennedy, 50%; Nixon, 50%. But he had a final word of statistical encouragement for Kennedy: if Kennedy counts those Republican Catholics who would jump fences to vote for a fellow Catholic, he could hope for a narrow popular tally: Kennedy, 53%; Nixon...
...Chinese Communist Ilyushin-14 airliner swept off a Rangoon runway last week and wheeled toward Russia with a drugged, closely guarded wreck of a man as cargo. The man aboard: Soviet Colonel Mikhail I. Stryguine. whose bizarre experience resembled Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina's "jump to freedom" from the Russian consulate in Manhattan almost eleven years ago-except that Colonel Stryguine did not make...
...other people somehow look nicer-good enough to wave at. They can search the primitive labyrinthine waters of Florida's Everglades, wake to the spontaneous burst of sound and color of the Mangrove Coast, where thousands of roosting ibis, egrets, anhingas and spoonbills toy, and where silver tarpon jump by moonlight and coons and otters feed and play. They fish under the dawn-pink sky out of San Diego, and in the cool basins of the Colorado mountains. And they can just laze...
...Crimson field event crew sparkled as usual. Liles took first in the broad jump, and high jumper John deKiewiet and pole vaulter Tom Blodgett contributed wins in their specialities. Jim Doty, Stan Doten, and Roger Wilson swept the hammer, and Hank Abbot triumphed in the shot. Shot putter Steve Cohen, fighting for a letter, uncorked a 49 ft., 7 3/4 in, heave on his last attempt to beat Karl Mayer of Dartmouth for second...