Word: pols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Refrigerator. An auto refrigerator that holds eight 12-oz. bottles is being sold by Pol-Air, Inc., Morgan City, La. The device is cooled by a copper coil that is connected to the car's carburetor and gas line. The carburetor draws gas from the gas line through the coil, where it changes from a liquid to a vapor and in the process absorbs heat, then is fed back to the carburetor. Price...
...picture, taken by Associated Press Photographer Paul Vathis and appearing recently in the Philadelphia Inquirer, showed Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor David Lawrence, 69, during a press conference, head down, sparse hair above an expanse of wearily wrinkled forehead, hands clasped as though to prop up sagging jowls. Old Pol Lawrence thought the picture made him look like an old pol (see cut). Cried he next day to Photographer Vathis: "The worst picture I have ever had taken of me, and I've seen some beauts...
...almost prayerful meditation or reaching out to emphasize some point, eyes half closed as he ponders a question, the Governor is revealed as a man under great stress-and as a man who is determinedly thinking his way through." Thus made to appear as a statesman instead of a pol, Pennsylvania's Lawrence sought out Photographer Vathis. "Accept my humblest apologies, Paul." he said. "I was wrong. It was a good picture, after...
...hamstrung by the existence of several major parties in Philippine politics. Besides Macapagal's Liberal Party, there is the Progressive Party, headed by Manny Manahan, another of the bright young men of the Magsaysay era. Somehow, Manahan and Macapagal could never agree to combine forces, and Old Pol Garcia maneuvered to keep them apart...
...continually to beware of such a suspicion, coming from an ambassador so proud of his American connections, the fact nonetheless was that Old Pol Garcia has apparently concluded that pulling the eagle's tail feathers is the only way his Nacionalista Party can hope to hold its own in the Philippines' congressional elections next November...