Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clouds of grey smoke rose from hot-fat cookers on the floodlit high-school football field in Rochester, Ind. (pop. 5,000) as "Charley Halleck Day" sizzled to a close with an old-fashioned fish fry. Heading the well-wishers of Republican House Leader Halleck on his silver anniversary in Congress was touring Vice President Richard M. Nixon. At the flag-draped rostrum, facing 15,000 Hoosiers brimful of yellow perch and Republican politics, Nixon, after saluting Halleck, the crowd and the perch, said: "Now, I want to relate the international situation to this meeting we're having...
...would even prefer not to announce his candidacy during the early-bird New Hampshire primary next March, but he may be forced to if New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller files against him. Until then, Nixon will continue to project himself as a national leader who has dealt and can continue to deal with Nikita Khrushchev...
Against this formidable foe, Labor had waged an aggressive "We can do it better" campaign. This display of vigor, reinforced by the unexpectedly effective performance of Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell, upset Tory plans for a quiet election and turned the three-week campaign into the toughest-talking election battle since Labor's 1945 victory over Winston Churchill. Said Labor's "Nye" Sevan: "I have seen the squint in [Macmillan's] soul." Macmillan himself, harking back to an old description of Hugh Gaitskell as "a desiccated calculating machine," gleefully cracked: "I still think he is rather desiccated...
...Columbia offense is no soft touch. Quarterback Tom Vassell, the offensive leader in the Ivy League, and end Bob Federspiel, one of the most feared pass receivers in the League, make a dangerous combination. Vassell has accounted for 269 yards with his throwing and Federspiel scared the Elis enough for them to put two men on him. At left half will be Don Savini, extremely fast and just as lethal to the outside as Brookins...
After a few surprises in last weekend's full schedule, the Ivy League football standings begin to take shape. The eight teams have now jostled into position, but even so, any prediction on an eventual winner, or even a leader, by next Monday would be no better than a guess...