Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tennessee's Albert Gore, now safe for another six years in the U.S. Senate, speaking for a Michigan congressional candidate: "If the Republican Party were ever reincarnated into a homing pigeon, no matter where it was released in the universe, whether from a jet plane or in outer space, it would go directly home to Wall Street without a flutter of the wing...
Defensive fighter planes-perhaps 90% of the U.S.S.R.'s air force-are another matter. Obsolescent U.S. F-86s armed with Sidewinders so far have been far superior to the MIG-17s, as Free China's pilots have proved (TIME, Oct. 6). Nobody yet knows how well the U.S.'s F-100 series might do against the newest Russian fighter, the MIG-21. Nor is there much fresh information about the new Soviet all-weather, delta-winged interceptor. The big Russian interceptor force is helped in its job by what may be the world's best...
...Crimson will be favored this afternoon, but there is considerable fear in some circles that a letdown may be impending, after the Dartmouth win. Coach Yovicsin himself seems to be somewhat uneasy about the matter. He said yesterday afternoon that he had no worries on the score of overconfidence, but also remarked that "there are other kinds of a letdown, you know...
However, Dogherty does not think that the petition will succeed in forcing a Council referendum on the matter. "But the debate stimulated by such a campaign might bring out new and effective ways of strengthening the present Council," he said...
...resigned originally "on a matter of principle," and his only resort was "to play safe." Khan noted that the group had been "free of politics and pressures while Prince Sadruddin Aly Khan '55 was present at Harvard...