Word: oceana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only a small, personal following among Democrats. In many parts of the U.S., he draws crowds that are undemonstrative; his looks, his voice, his personality, according to New York Times reporters roving the Middle West, generally have little appeal. ("Eisenhower is ordinary-like," said a gasoline-station attendant in Oceana County, Mich., "and so is Kefauver.") Expounding on "The Case for the Democrats" in last week's Saturday Evening Post, House Speaker Sam Rayburn managed to write 4,500 words of a 4,700-word article before mentioning the candidate's name. Stevenson's campaign managers...
When her brief inspection tour was over (distance traveled: 500 yards), Britain's Queen settled down to enjoy a garden party at Oceana House, the royal palace of the present "King" of Cocos, John Clunies-Ross, 25, and his beautiful "Queen" Daphne, whom he wooed and won in London in 1951. Garbed in a Molyneux gown and feathered hat flown from England for the occasion, Daphne Clunies-Ross, who in the last three years has grown used to island barefoot fashions, was plainly uncomfortable in her high-heeled shoes...