Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Payne 6f Maine," parodied Pine Tree State Democrats on the eve of last week's early-bird election, "is mainly on the wane." But not even Democrats, as the results rolled in, were prepared for the size of their gain. Not only did Frederick G. Payne lose, as expected, to lanky (6 ft. 4 in., 185 Ibs.) bow-tied Governor Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 44, the golden boy of Maine politics; Muskie, as the state's first popularly elected Democratic Senator, got double the plurality that he expected. And a train of Maine Democrats followed Muskie into power. Items...
...Tommy Aaron, playing in his first National Amateur, the week was as refreshing as a breeze off the nearby Pacific. Virtually unknown outside of the South, the University of Florida senior had nothing to lose and everything to win, and he played that way. Tall and rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 185 Ibs.), he banged out drives of 250 yds., canned his putts with ease and never trailed an opponent, including Quarter Finalist Dick Chapman, former U.S. (1940) and British (1951) Amateur champ. "The greens are like billiard tables," chuckled Tommy. "All you have to do is start the ball...
...financial wants is practically assured of work. No agency director has yet turned down an applicant referred by the Employment Office. Although the individual managers supposedly have the option of not accepting candidates, a subtle coercive pressure forces acceptance. If carried to the extreme degree, an agency director could lose all freedom of choosing his workers...
...raised grave doubts whether it will permit the 707 to operate, except under such restrictions that would make the flights lose money. The official reason for the Port Authority's stand: jet noise...
...children hide pennies from their aunt until they have saved enough to buy a pair of brushes and three cans of shoe polish. For a short while they prosper, but with the coming of the rains their customers lose interest in shoeshines. Close to starvation, the boy and his sister are accidentally separated; from there the film wanders to an ending that, for all its melodramatic sentimentality, fits perfectly into the picture's curious blend of gutter reality and fairy-tale dreaminess...