Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Situation in Hand. Near Camp Lejeune, N.C., Acting Marine Sergeant Bruce K. Moore was fined $25 for spanking an eight-year-old neighborhood hellion merely because the lad had conked Moore on the head with a mud ball, tossed rocks at Moore's dog, got mud all over Mrs. Moore's newly washed sheets, gleefully winged stones into the toilet of the Moore apartment...
Asked the same old presidential question after lunch, he grinned engagingly and gave quite a different answer: "I am not a candidate for the presidency, but I appreciate your asking. I get to feel neglected...
...York TV show last week. But he carefully leaves a door ajar, and he has told friends that if the Democratic convention should draft him for the nomination he would not refuse. No one who talks to Stevenson doubts that he will stay clear of the fight; his old bruises from the rough and tumble 1956 state primaries still pain him. But granted the purest of motives, he has chosen the wisest possible course for a two-time loser who might make a third...
Once as solidly entrenched as a Deep South Democratic machine, Michigan's Republican Party has not won an important state election in seven years. Principal reason: G.O.P. liberals and Old Guard-ists, after mauling each other, are too beat to put up much of a fight against the smoothly functioning Democratic Party of six-times Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams and the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther. Last week word leaked out that the old Republican feud had erupted into a name-calling, table-thumping session starring Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield for the Old Guard and Henry...
Chairman Don Ahrens, retired vice president of the traditionally Old Guardian General Motors Corp., agreed to carry Summerfield's suggestion to Michigan State University Professor Paul Bagwell, the Republican candidate for Governor last year and titular party head. But Ford telephoned ahead, told Bagwell to ignore .Summerfield's plan, promised aid if the Old Guard attempted to bar Bagwell from another try at the governorship...