Word: keyed
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...Beach. In addition to these frontal attacks, Meyner has been wounded by a shot in the back from his own party. The key to a Democratic victory rests in Hudson County, where last election Meyner won almost half his 154,000-vote plurality over Republican Candidate Paul Troast. Now Hudson is racked by internecine warfare; "Victory Ticket" Democrats, who last spring wrested control of Jersey City away from Boss John V. Kenny, this election are trying to take the whole county. The conflict and confusion may rob Meyner of many of the votes he needs to roll up in Hudson...
Like many another astute Republican, George Magoffin Humphrey is painfully aware of a mounting Midwest crisis for the G.O.P. Growing Old Guard resentment at Eisenhower Republicans has already cost the Republicans some key statehouses, congressional seats and a Wisconsin Senate seat, may inflict even more wounds in the 1958 congressional elections unless the right wing starts fighting Democrats instead of Ike Republicans. Visiting Chicago last week for what Illinois' Governor William G. Stratton had proclaimed as "George Humphrey Day," the ex-Treasury Secretary spoke at a fund-raising banquet in his honor, volunteered a Dutch uncle's advice...
Marshal Sarit's bloodless coup so surprised Bangkok diplomats that most of them heard of it at breakfast the morning after. Shortly before midnight Marshal Sarit's brand-new U.S. tanks and weapons carriers had taken up positions controlling Bangkok's key traffic arteries. Efficient little Thai infantrymen, troops of Sarit's crack 1st Division, set up mortar and machine-gun emplacements, and over the radio came the first of a series of orders from Sarit and the new government...
...turn CBS decided retroactively that it had lent Murrow the network's right to editorialize. The network lists him only as one of its hired hands, but Murrow is something of a power in himself, with his own generously financed domain and the strong personal loyalty of key CBS news staffers. His unique status stems from 1) his close friendship with Board Chairman William S. Paley, with whom he deals directly, 2) his onetime role as a major architect of its news staff and policy, and 3) the hard fact that if CBS ever loses him, it will...
...weepy singsong of Gabriel Heatter, still broadcasting after 32 years, the now-stilled, intelligent frog croak of Elmer Davis, the cocksureness of Fulton Lewis Jr., the literate wit of Eric Sevareid, the pear-shaped tones of Lowell Thomas. Gone now from radio is Winchell's clattering telegraph key and breathless bleat: too seldom heard is aging (79) H. V. Kaltenborn's clipped assurance. The news comes by short wave and on tape, the newsmen in snazzy ties and boutonnieres (ABC's popular John Cameron Swayze), and even in pairs (NBC's intelligent and informative duet, earnest...