Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Redheaded, 67-year-old Jim Duff was locked in a rousing fight with the moss-grown, reactionary forces of bright-eyed, apple-cheeked, 87-year-old Joe Grundy. The battleground was the May primaries, when Duff will run for the Senate nomination against John C. Kunkel, a faithful, colorless Grundyman now serving his sixth lackluster term in Congress. More than any platform or pronouncements, the outcome might well determine, the course and fate of the Republican Party...
...works and pomps which Glenn McCarthy has raised in honor of McCarthy have taken a more solid form. There is McCarthy's Houston mansion, a white-pillared, $700,000 pile surrounded by vast lawns and trees bearded with Spanish moss. There is the 15,000-acre ranch on which he admires his blooded cattle and occasionally shoots deer, goats and turkeys. There is McCarthy's Colosadium (so far, only on paper), a 110,000-seat stadium for Houston with a sliding roof in case of rain. There are McCarthy's airplanes, which include a four-engined Boeing...