Word: neared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign hard, and he did win big, by a near-record 402,000 votes over a nice Republican lady. That consolidated his position as a Democratic hopeful...
...dozen Mid western and Western states and has sur prising strength in the South. "Kennedy is sober and temperate on civil rights." says Mississippi's Governor J. P. Coleman. "He's no hell raiser or Barnburner." Kennedy came out of nowhere in 1956 with a breathless, near-successful try. with heavy Southern support, at plucking the vice-presidential nomination out of Estes Kefauver's shaken hands. A few months later, after Dwight Eisenhower's election, Kennedy was set to thinking hard when Hubert Humphrey's wife Muriel remarked at a cocktail party: "If Stu Symington...
White and Dugan exchanged bitter words near the company gate. Then White rode off in his 1958 Thunderbird, and Dugan took off after him in his 1956 Ford station wagon. Two sheriff's deputies, on duty at the plant, spotted the two cars pulling away, decided to go after them. Half a mile away, the deputies came across Dugan's parked car. Nearby, they found Dugan's body, sprawled face downward beside a brook. He had been shot in the back. As police reconstructed the shooting, Dugan, unarmed this time, ran away when White drew his pistol...
...Western steadiness was that West Berlin is a far more prosperous and populous community than the naked city that so desperately withstood Stalin's 1948-49 blockade. Business is booming, the hammering sounds of construction fill the air, the shell of a new Hilton Hotel is rising near the sleek shops of the Kurfurstendamm...
Outside the secluded stone house near Washington's Rock Creek Park, two "For Sale" signs were spiked forlornly in the lawn. Inside, curious house seekers noted the scarred plaster, peeling paint, grotesquely overstuffed furniture, shabby, faded Oriental rug that had been replaced by a shiny new one during much of the stay of the previous tenant, former Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams...