Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lonely Washington, Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman George Smathers, the Florida sparkler, called for reporters and tartly read off Butler for discussion that "takes people's minds off the virtues of the Democratic Party." In Louisiana, slow-burning Governor Earl Long, brother to the late Huey, proclaimed: "I've been hearing things like that 'integrate or get out' for a long time. You can tell Mr. Butler I said I don't intend to do either." Many a Southern politician echoed the sharp words of Mississippi Governor J. P. Coleman: "Instead of the South being thrown...
...over the state government in 1956 for the first time since 1933, have the distinction of trying to defend two Senate seats. Incumbent G.O.P. Senator Chapman ("Chappy") Revercomb, 63, who served one Senate term (1943-48) before he was elected in 1956 to fill out the term of the late Harley Kilgore, is a handsome grandfather, a tireless, bassoon-throated campaigner, a conservative flailing at apathetic Republican voters. His opponent is conservative, too, but fast-moving, breezy Robert C. Byrd, 40, father of two girls (aged 21 and 17), is hard to beat. A former grocer and three-term Congressman...
...Soviet refugees say that high-altitude U.S. photo-reconnaissance planes flying in from the West made a nighttime penetration of Russian airspace in late 1956 or early 1957. MIG-17s from the Moscow air defense district scrambled to meet them, could not get up to their altitude (above 50,000 ft.). The commander of the Moscow air defense zone is reported to have been fired after this episode...
...Both are great-great-grandchildren of German Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, husband and consort of Queen Victoria. Victoria herself was a descendant of the Hanover Georges. Elizabeth's grandmother, the late Queen Mary, was the daughter of the German Duke of Teck. Philip's maternal grandfather was German Prince Louis of Battenberg, who Anglicized his name to Mountbatten...
...Regrettably," said Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, "the masses have shown a tendency of late to ignore...