Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peeps & Points. Striking northwest from Lexington, John Sherman Cooper, 55, tramped through solid Democratic counties, e.g., Scott, Henry, Carroll and Owen ("I've always gotten more applause than votes in these parts"), shaking hands. Men were interested in his grave, quiet manner, women in his good looks and unfailing courtesy. Often he walked into beauty parlors, peeped under hair dryers, introduced himself to the surprised clients thereunder, explaining: "I need your vote." Popular as he is, Yaleman Cooper is regarded by some of the Kentucky Old Guard as being "too progressive" and distinctly a member of the party...
Nehru and his party fared better last week in another of India's new states. In the northwest prairie state of Punjab, Tara Singh, 71, the white-bearded leader of India's 6,000,000 Sikhs, abandoned his fight for a state of Sikhistan, and ordered his 36-year-old Akali Party of bearded, sword-wearing zealots to join the Congress Party. Henceforth, said Masterji Singh, Akali will stick to religious, economic and cultural matters only. His admonition to his Sikhs, traditionally the great warriors of India: "Girdle your loins. Buckle your sword-hilted belts. Shave no more...
...footloose Publisher Parrish spends little time enjoying his new $175,000 home in northwest Washington, finds it more rewarding to write his chatty fortnightly column. "En Route," from all points of the compass. "I was looking at myself the other day." said he. "I was wearing an English hat and shoes, a Peruvian shirt, an Italian tie, and a topcoat I bought in Hong Kong. That can only happen to you in the air age. I've got only one problem-a small one. I'm the only man in the U.S. who has to ask his wife...
...approximately the same hour, 75 miles to the northwest in the mushrooming city of Riverside (pop. 72,000), a short, coffee-skinned man with blue-black hair and an easy smile finished a hefty breakfast, stepped into his air-conditioned 1950 Buick and set off on a long round of meetings, conferences and calls aimed at Jackie Cochran's undoing. He was Dalip Singh Saund, 57, an India-born Sikh who came to the U.S. as a student and stayed on to become a citizen, a successful businessman, a California district judge and Jackie Cochran's Democratic opponent...
Traveling through Communist China, Dr. Hewlett Johnson, the "Red Dean" of Canterbury, turned up at Taerh Monastery at Sining in the remote northwest, where he posed for pictures after discussing matters of mutual interest with two Living Buddhas, seven-year-old Achia, head of the monastery, and the equally youthful Saito...