Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longtime chairman of the Finance Committee, he is the Senate's acknowledged tax expert. As the current chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, he is the Senate's Democratic spokesman on foreign policy. And as a Southern moderate, he is on the friendliest terms with the Northern liberals, e.g., he wangled a place on the U.S. delegation to the SEATO conference for his protege, Montana's able Senator Mike Mansfield, and he offered to campaign last year for Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey (who gratefully declined because he wanted a Minnesotans-only campaign...
...husband Philip to shed a ray of royal hope in the one region of prosperous Britain that is visibly and chronically depressed. "Dark, Satanic Mills." Lancashire is not the tourists' England. Forty miles wide by 60 miles long, it is bisected by the river Ribble into a northern rural section that merges into Wordsworth's Lake District, and a southern industrial coalfield choked with so many cities, slums, mining villages and cotton mills, greyhound stadia, slagheaps, canals and railroad sidings that it forms a single complex, something like the Ruhr. South Lanes, as Britons call...
POLITICAL DUST-UP over CAB attempts to knock two small Alaskan airlines out of their profitable Stateside routes (TIME, Jan. 3) has raised such a furor that CAB has now decided to let them alone. It will recommend that both Pacific Northern Airlines and Alaska Airlines continue to operate into Seattle and Portland along with the big lines, Pan American and Northwest...
...hooked ten in ten minutes (prize: a week's vacation). In last year's Sentinel show he won a $2,500 log cabin (which he traded to an uncle for a 1951 Ford convertible), plus a week's canoe trip and another vacation at a northern Wisconsin resort where he and a pal caught 72 wall-eyed pike in 3½ days...
...court order restraining the show from barring his son. But the sport show managers still refused to let Jerry cast another fly. Before Jerry was banned, he had already caught more than 100 trout. Prizes: a five-day Las Vegas vacation, plus three one-week vacations in northern Wisconsin. He would like to donate the Wisconsin trips to local orphanages, but the managers are hard losers; they insist that the vacations are not transferable...