Word: oregon
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They recalled a remarkable upset scored over author Crimson eleven--the 1921 squad--by the Praying Colonels of little Centre College. The Colonsis were facing a Harvard team that had gone undefeated for three years, that had won the Rose Bowl from Oregon two years before, that had since the beginning of the century, compiled the impressive record of 157 victories only 19 losses and nineties...
...most "important teacher was the American people. Ike saw them at a thousand whistle stops from Oregon to Louisiana, crowding the depots, jamming a hundred auditoriums, town squares and courthouse steps. He listened where they cheered and where they were silent, where their faces were grim, and where they smiled. When he spoke about his three main campaign points-Korea, Communism and corruption-Student Eisenhower could gauge the echoes from the crowds. All of Eisenhower's education, military, diplomatic, political, came on top of the basic set of his character-the education of boyhood in a small Kansas town...
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...Senate seats to be filled this year, 21 are held by Republicans and 14 by Democrats. The present division in the Senate is 49 Democrats, 46 Republicans and one newborn independent (Oregon's Fair-Dealing Wayne Morse, who resigned from the Republican Party last week). Thus, to win control, the Republicans must keep the 21 seats they now hold and win three more. It is doubtful that they can do that short of an Eisenhower landslide that would carry some of the weaker G.O.P. Senate candidates into office...
...Stevenson made his visit to the White House for an intelligence briefing; that same week he admitted in a letter to an Oregon editor that there is "a mess" in Washington. "It's been proved, hasn't it?" he said to questioning reporters. That might be "talking sense" to people at large, but politically it was a bad slip of the tongue...