Word: laureled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...definitive portrayals of Aïda, Butterfly, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Minnie in this season's Met opener, The Girl of the Golden West. ("You can get into this part," said Price buoyantly, "and swing it around.") The reason, perhaps, is that the girl from Laurel, Miss., can dream her way into the heart of a role as only the finest performers...
...Whirlaway, Challedon). This week, with a lucky yellow ribbon wound into his forelock and Old Master Eddie Arcaro in his saddle, Kelso will parade to the post for the most important race of his brief career: the Washington International, 1½ miles over the turf at Maryland's Laurel Race Course. The stakes are a $70,000 winner's purse and the biggest title of them all: best race horse in the world...
...opponent, Artemio Lobrin, had a Laurel-like grasp of politics himself; after all, he had once served as confidential secretary to Jose Sr. He immediately filed a complaint charging that Laurel supporters had torn up Lobrin ballots, falsified returns and intimidated voters...
Ordinarily, there would have been a ruling within six months. But not in Laurel's Batangas. The police captain took 20 months to assemble and give his evidence; Jose Laurel IV required another three months to make his own deposition. It was not until three years and nine months after the protested election that the House tribunal reached its verdict: Ar temio Lobrin had won by 586 votes...
Last week Lobrin at last took the oath as Congressman from Batangas, and his rival, Jose Laurel IV, was cheerfully on hand to congratulate him. Only four months remained of the term, and Lobrin will not even get the satisfaction of sitting in his seat, since the House has adjourned for the year. But in November Lobrin will get another chance to wrestle with the Laurels when he runs for Congress once again. His opponent: Father Jose Jr., who clearly has decided that the defeat of Upstart Lobrin was too important a job to leave in the hands...