Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seaton's razzle-dazzle campaigning got a cool reception, largely because he was regarded as the voice of the federal "absentee landlord" in Washington. Despite his lavish promises of Republican federal help, Alaska's Democrats rolled up a big victory. Result: "Landlord"' Seaton will electioneer in low key-and only if invited-in the campaign for the June primaries now beginning in Hawaii...
...offered its congratulations to Peking for "leading the people of Tibet to prosperity and equality." "Why," asked the Indian Express of Nehru, "this strange tenderness for Communist feelings as contrasted with the disregard for the sensitivities of the democracies?" Said the Hindustan Times: "Let us hold our heads low. A small country on our border has paid the ultimate penalty for its temerity to aspire to independence . . . Much else could die with Tibet if we do not even now heed the warning...
...present-day terms, the story tells of a Massachusetts state senator, a Republican of rather low I.Q., whose son has driven him into debt from frequenting Lincoln Downs too often. In order to weasel out of his debts, the father (performed with virtuosity by Daniel Garrison, complete with belches and burps) enrolls after hours at a fly-by-night school in Boston, in the hope of mastering legal quibbles and learning how to persuade a jury that red is really green. He flunks out, though, and forces his son (cleanly played by Marsh McCall) to matriculate in his stead...
...facts, ignored by one and all (including the low and callous Boston sports scribes), speak for themselves. Boston has the best left-fielder and batsman in baseball, Ted Williams, the best rightfielder in baseball, Jackie Jensen, the best third baseman in baseball, Frank Malzone, the finest clutch performer and general handyman in the league, Pete Runnels, plus a large number of reliable sidemen...
...individual missionaries, but our needs require us to be group missionaries," the Dean commented. Rexford J. Moon, Jr., director of the College Scholarship Service, has pointed out that 150,000 capable students from low-income families never attend college...