Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ruiz Cortines' all-powerful Party of Revolutionary Institutions (P.R.I.) will meet in November to nominate Mexico's next President. The constitution prevents Ruiz Cortines from running again, but his will be the most important voice in choosing P.R.I.'s candidate. The dedication marathon was a semifinal bow by the President and a splendid plug for whomever P.R.I, picks as his successor...
...will send two very good runners to the starting line in seniors George Hillier and Gene Ellis. Hillier is the marathon champion of Canada...
...amateur championships, amateur hot-shots stumbled and fell. Billy Joe Patton, the hard-hitting Carolina lumber dealer was cut down in the second round; last year's runner-up, Charles Kocsis, was bumped in the fifth; Willie Turnesa, winner in 1938 and 1948, lost a 24-hole marathon to an unknown Florida insurance underwriter named Jack Penrose. Just as he began to get his game under control, Robbins found himself in the finals, matched with his Walker Cup teammate, Dr. Frank ("Bud") Taylor, 40, a Pomona, Calif. dentist...
...Ernie Kovacs rehearses his confusion." says one TV producer, "but Jack Paar just creates it." Last week Funnyman Paar, whom critics have long accused of living in winter off the nut he stores up in summer, was awash in the unrehearsed confusion of a sprawling, winter-weight marathon ballyhooed by NBC as the "new" Tonight. Contorting his rubber-band lips around his familiar pipestem and some spottily diverting japes, neat, dumpling-cheeked Jack Paar, 39, glibly scared up a little offbeat fun and flapdoodle-something that the gossipists who succeeded Kovacs and Steve Allen were notably unable to do. Despite...
...elected to the state senate since 1892. Alternating with Laredo's Abraham Kazen Jr., 38, Freshman Senator Gonzalez (who perfected his speech as a child by practicing with pebbles in his mouth, "like Demosthenes") ranged the course of world history and literature to flesh out his marathon talk. Quoting hugely from Herodotus, the Prophet Jeremiah, John Donne and many another classic, he dazzled his colleagues -and almost wore them down-with his panegyric on freedom and on the crucial need for racial equality...