Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Answers. The step was climactic, pricked with crucial questions. The Teamsters comprise the largest single union in the federation; its 1,400,000 members pay $840,000 a year in per capita dues to the A.F.L.-C.I.O.; its burly truck drivers can make or break strikes in almost all key industries, and the Teamster bosses had let the word get out that they might be tempted to get even with the unions that voted against them. A morass of tie-ups, a campaign of raids, could splinter, perhaps even destroy the A.F.L.-C.I.O...
...Forbes won. We had a little election in Wisconsin-one the Republicans would like to forget.* An upset gave inspiration to the Democratic Party. An upset here would prove to Republicans all over the country that it can be done." On the chance that it could, Nixon toured seven key counties, made eight full-dress speeches, shook as many hands as he could reach (2,000 in 90 minutes in Bergen County), even inspired 3,000 students who turned out of Atlantic City High School to give him a rousing "Three-Rah Nixon...
...effort to defeat Incumbent Democratic Governor Robert Baumle Meyner next week in the key U.S. election of 1957, the G.O.P. had also called out Labor Secretary James P. . Mitchell, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton and New Jersey's Senator Clifford Case. But the busiest campaigner of them all was energetic Malcolm Forbes, 38, who was trying to dramatize issues in a state that Bob Meyner has governed blandly but well...
...establishing diplomatic relations with East Germany while he was in the country, Zhukov seemed unconcerned about such political matters. In his one big speech he boasted of "our first-class modern arms, including atomic and hydrogen weapons . . . the intercontinental ballistic rocket." Barging slowly through Albania, he inspected the key Soviet-bloc naval base at Valona and told a group of gold-star mothers: "The imperialists are trying to unleash another war, but we, if necessary, can strike a stronger blow...
...fortunes of the Crimson depend on its healthy members. Dyke Benjamin, Captain Dave Norris and Jim Schlaeppi should be strong contenders. The key to the whole meet lies in the hands of French Anderson and sophomore Wes Hildreth, both of whom have shown such rapid improvement that either could break the meet wide open...