Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Christian Science Monitor, Louisville Courier-Journal, Kansas City Star, New York Herald-Tribune, Chicago Daily News, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and Milwaukee Journal. Rowse omitted only two of these, the Washington and Louisville papers, on the grounds that they were not in key electoral areas...
...illiterate voters punched a nail through a printed symbol representing one of 69 political parties. At day's end one symbol had the winning number of nail holes. The symbol: the hammer and sickle of the Indonesian Communist Party. The Communists had won an overwhelming victory in four key areas of Indonesia's most populous island...
Crosby's acquittal tasted particularly sweet to the Journal, since it had broken out 180-point type earlier this month to banner the acquittal on perjury charges of Mayor Terry Schrunk (TIME, July 8), another key figure named by Elkins. "The vaunted truthfulness of Elkins," crowed the Journfal, "was quickly exposed as an unadulterated myth." When the Journal pressed its advantage by urging dismissal of the ten other charges facing Schrunk and Crosby last week, the Oregonian countered with an editorial criticizing the "weakness of the prosecution." Both papery nonetheless gave the trials top news play. And if Oregonians...
Hank Aaron is a predictable quantity-he gets his quota of base hits no matter what happens to the Braves. In last week's key series, he peered at the Phillies' pitchers with sleepy eyes, the end of his bat twitching ominously like the tail of a prowling panther. He seemed almost to be napping as the ball started toward him, but at the last instant he snapped his powerful wrists and the bat whistled in a perfectly coordinated arc. When he was through swinging against the Phils, Aaron had smashed out six hits in seven tries...
...country of its size, Hungary has an extraordinary record for providing the U.S. with first-rank scientist immigrants. Leo Szilard (key atom-bomb physicist), Edward Teller ("Father of the H-bomb") and the late great Mathematician John von Neumann (an Atomic Energy commissioner) were all Hungarian-born. So when refugees began streaming out of rebellious Hungary last year, the National Academy of Sciences set up an office at Camp Kilmer, N.J. and sent an expeditionary force to Austria to help educated Hungarians find jobs...