Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five unearned runs in the eighth inning gave Brooklyn the decision in the first game. The Braves took a 4 to 1 lead in the nightcap, but homers by Roy Campanella and Jackie Robinson and a key double by Campanella provided the margin of victory. Carl Erskine was the winner, Vern Bickford the loser...
...Colorado, popular Ralph L. Carr, 62, governor from 1939 to 1943, the Republican nomination again, by a 2-to-1 margin, over his only opponent, although a foot infection kept him in a hospital bed for most of the campaign. Candidate Carr stands a good chance of unseating Democratic Governor Walter Johnson and pulling his running mate, Senator Eugene Millikin, across the line to reelection...
...decided to give up his House seat to run again for the Senate. He whirred across Texas by helicopter in a series of 18-hour campaigning days that won him a hairbreadth 87-vote margin over popular ex-Governor Coke Stevenson. Since then, he has been a loyal, but not unquestioning, supporter of the Fair Deal; when it came to voting on labor and civil-rights bills, he lined up with the coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats to help defeat the Administration program...
Died. Frank Leslie Smith, 82, Illinois Republican, a delegate to every G.O.P. national convention from 1912 through 1948, once a U.S. Senator-elect (but never a Senator); in Dwight, Ill. Elected by a 67,000-vote margin in 1926, he was barred from office by vote of a Republican Senate on the grounds that his campaign expenditures in the primary election had been excessive and that most of the money was a slush fund: upwards of $200,000 had come from Illinois utilities magnates, including Samuel Insull, who gave $125,000, while Smith was still serving as chairman...
...steadily drew away from Horace Dodge's My Sweetie, Jack Schafer's Stick Crust II, and Harold Wilson's Miss Canada IV. Slo-Mo-Shun's speed over the windswept course was 91.127 m.p.h., a shade under the old record, but fast enough. The winning margin: three miles...