Word: platformed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan was long since disowned by such party stalwarts as Ben Franklin Jensen, eleven-term G.O.P. Congressman from southwestern Iowa's Seventh District. By last week Ben Jensen, already fighting desperately to hold the seat that was once rock-ribbed Republican, was running mainly on an anti-Benson platform, called his own Administration's farm plan "almost a complete failure ... I just don't agree with Benson. I've urged him to change his course. But it's been in vain...
Next day, beneath leaden skies, Mamie Eisenhower and Mrs. George Allen arrived by train; on hand to meet them were Ike and Jester George, whose early-October Palm Springs hospitality the Eisenhowers were returning. As they chatted on the platform, Mamie looked at the overcast, said to Mary Allen: "If the sun doesn't shine, Ike will be mad." Ike, sporting the National's green blazer and a grey and tan checkered sports shirt, replied confidently: "Don't worry, it will burn off." Sure enough, sunshine poked through the clouds that afternoon; after some paper work...
...extraordinary congress at Bad Godesberg last week, West Germany's Social Democratic Party, defeated in the past three elections by Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democrats-and by increasing margins, formally shed the Marxist principles upon which it was founded 96 years ago. The new platform favors "a free market wherever free competition really exists." Instead of a rigidly controlled economy, it now seeks "as much competition as possible, as much planning as necessary...
Mock nominations for presidential and vice-presidential candidates will open the three-day meeting. Representatives will "create a platform" for the national party on the second day, according to Little; on the third, the New England Young Democrats Clubs will hold their annual meeting...
...slums. Cape Town-born Abba Eban, who had never lived in Israel before his return from the U.S. last summer, got off to an awkward start by turning up in statesman's coat and tie for a Mapai rally at which Ben-Gurion and everybody else on the platform wore open-necked shirts. As quickly as was diplomatically possible, Eban stripped to his shirtsleeves and scored a smashing comeback by appealing for votes with U.N.-style eloquence in Arabic, Spanish, French, Persian and Hebrew. Peres and Eban are now in line for top government posts, and Ben-Gurion makes...