Word: mate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early in the campaign, Quadros staged a spectacular maneuver. To get the nomination of the powerful National Democratic Union (U.D.N.), he had earlier agreed to accept the U.D.N. vice presidential candidate as his running mate. Suddenly he rejected the U.D.N.'s man and withdrew from the race. Confusion reigned: a few hair-trigger army and air force officers tried to stage a coup as a means of forcing him to reconsider. The Veep candidate resigned, the U.D.N. agreed to share Quadros with other parties, and finally Quadros announced: "You have defeated me. I return." Return he did-free...
Into Manila last week swarmed 1,344 delegates to the Nacionalista Party convention, intent on nominating President Carlos Garcia for a second term and picking his running mate. As with everything that Garcia touches, the convention reeked of money. "No delegates in history were ever as pampered, catered to, wined, dined and 'womaned' as these delegates," said Manila's sharp-tongued Mayor Arsenio Lucson...
...economist and business executive, is not tarred with the widespread charges of corruption leveled against Garcia's administration. In November, Garcia and Puyat will be matched against the Liberal Party nominees: earnest Diosdado Macapagal, who claims the mantle of the late great President Magsaysay, and his running mate Emmanuel Pelaez. Both are reform-minded enthusiasts who will campaign on a ready-made platform: "Throw the Rascals...
...convincing evidence from years of study on 1,000 scrapie-ridden sheep that the disease is hereditary, being transmitted by a certain type of recessive gene. If both ram and ewe have two such genes, all their lambs will have scrapie. If one animal has the genes but its mate has none, the "clear" genes will dominate, and the lambs will have no disease. Dr. Parry is still checking a theory that if both parent animals have a single scrapie gene, one out of four of their lambs should get the disease...
.../Who told the tale I now rehearse,/When proffered a cigar.) For more substantial fare, the reader might prefer A Yarn, which contains such stanzas as the following: For six long weeks we drifted on, we had nor food nor water; /We ate the cook, we ate the mate, we ate the captain's daughter./The sails grew mould overhead--ha! ha! the fishes laughed,--/We broke into the medicine chest, and all its contents quaffed. Thus the Advocate 85 years...