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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majority (515,299 to 335,404): Bert Thomas Combs, 48, wiry (5 ft. 10 in.), handsome ex-judge from the mountain-valley town of Prestonsburg (pop. 3,585, altitude 645 ft). Combs exploited a year of falling farm income by attacking his opponent, G.O.P. ex-Congressman (1952-58) John M. Robsion Jr., for pro-Benson votes while in the House-and never missed a chance to mispronounce Robsion's name "Ro-Ben-son." Combs's running mate for Lieutenant Governor, onetime Louisville Mayor Wilson Watkins Wyatt, 53, one of the founders of the left-wing Americans for Democratic...
Although the "Mock Republican Convention" sponsored by the Law School Forum at Lowell Lecture Hall last night left Richard M. Nixon and Nelson A. Rockefeller still even in their race for the G.O.P. nomination, speakers Al Capp and Walt Kelly established one thing, at least. The opposition candidate, "from the American political gutter," should be Harold E. Stassen they agreed; "if Harold can do it in blackface, he might make...
Quickly battling back, Capp proclaimed, "It is true that the elder Rockefeller did the equivalent of giving everybody in America a dollar. But Mr. Nixon has given us something twice as valuable--Richard M. Nixon." He said his announcement of Nixon's candidacy would come as a shock to the vice-President, who "has been all over the country" trying to do his present...
...probably this fact that makes Hal Holbrooks "Mark Twain Tonight" a particularly noteworthy show. Besides presenting Twain's genuine humor ("I'm all abstinence. . . so long as it doesn't do anyone any harm,") Holbrook doesn't hesitate to show the "darker" side of Twain, ranging from a discourse on why men really aren't the best animals in creation to more pointed and direct statements, such as humanity is a "basket of festering corruption. . . for the support and protection of microbes...
...Student Council may join an exchange program which will provide jobs in Europe for Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates, Mahmoud M. Shabandar '62, representative in charge of the project, announced yesterday...