Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Follette and his younger brother Philip formally organized the insurgent Progressive Party.* Father La Follette had kept it-barely-within the GOP, as a billowing reform movement. And though they swept Wisconsin in 1936, the progressives never really got off the ground. The New Deal appropriated many pet La Follette dreams, e.g., collective bargaining, unemployment compensation, and took credit for them to boot. But through the '30s, Young Bob worked faithfully in alliance with the New Deal on its domes tic program (exception: he wanted a pay-as-you-go tax system). His Civil Liberties Committee barnstormed across...
...Gold Coast (pop. 4,000,000), named by its Portuguese discoverers, is Britain's pet colony (see cover story...
...their devotion to television parakeets are just like people. So says Lu Van Wiseman, whose Pet Time (Sun. 9:45 a.m., Manhattan station WNBT) is aimed largely at the 1,000,000 parakeets (often known as lovebirds) in New York's metropolitan area. Each week the show features eight or ten parakeets hopping about, looking into mirrors and climbing ladders. Says Lu: "It gives the birds at home a psychologically happy reaction...
...first man ever to penetrate the stratosphere in an airplane, gangling (6 ft. 2 in., less than 150 Ibs.) "Shorty" Schroeder set a world altitude mark of 38,180 ft. in 1920 (he blacked out, and came to only after the plane had dived over six miles). His pet saying: "There is no place for heroes in flying...
Last week the museum bookstore was offering the public a list of 400 art books, reproductions of ancient jewelry, casts of everything from a 3,000-year-old terracotta Greek ox ($2.75) to a shimmering Aphrodite ($37.50). A pet Taylor project is a monthly set of 24 color reproductions for $1.25; more than 4,000,000 sets have been sold since 1948. Other sidelines: traveling shows, lectures five days a week, a loan policy that sent 1,840 treasures to 120 schools, colleges and smaller museums last year...