Word: matings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, Barkley is feeling fine; he is just a bit old (73) to be considered as a running mate for aging Harry Truman, who will be 68 at convention time. His eyesight, which has been bad for some time, has taken no sudden turn for the worse. He shows up on the floor of the Senate almost every day, rotates the presiding chair in a system worked out by Democrats to share a wearisome job. (Said a clerk: "It used to be a great honor; now it's a problem of who gets caught...
...News Columnist John Crosson put his finger squarely on the main reasons for the leaks. Said he: "New York friends of Vice President Barkley . . . are turning a cold, hard gaze on current maneuverings of certain high Democratic strategists to dump the Vice President as Harry Truman's running mate ... So let's have an end to this sneaky attempt by political schemers to sell Alben short. He's solid-and still aging in the wood...
Lost & Found. Off Pensacola, Fla., Chief Machinist Mate Dilbert D. Woolworth dropped his cigarette lighter into the Gulf, five minutes later got it back from a 15-lb. grouper hooked by his fishing companion...
...years old, Makoko was valued at $75,000. The zoo hoped to mate him with 12-years-old Oka in the next cage and thus produce the first baby gorillas spawned in captivity. When Makoko died, a keeper predicted that Oka "will know what's happened. She'll grieve. She won't live now." Instead, she padded around her cage yesterday as if nothing had happened. A zoo official, according to the Associated Press, said the faithless Oka didn't even miss Makoko...
...Gates recommends sexual abstention. "There is only one good reason why a man should assume the care of a woman--to be the guardian, guarantor and true conservator of his dear mate's purity of heart, protecting her from the world of which he is the representative...