Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rhode Island: Ravaged by internecine disputes. Rhode Island's once-muscular Democratic machine wavered in the primary, provided a real flank opening for popular Republican Christopher Del Sesto, 51. whose knife-edged victory over Democrat Dennis J. Roberts, 55. two years ago was reversed on a technicality. This time Republican Del Sesto turned the trick against Roberts, won by better than a knife's edge...
...indefatigably confident campaign of Democratic State Senator Gaylord A. Nelson, 42, caught fire in a state whose Republicans have despaired since losing Joe McCarthy's U.S. Senate seat last year to Democrat Bill Proxmire. Probably helped by Proxmire's thumping re-election victory, Nelson unseated once-popular Republican Incumbent Vernon W. Thompson...
...longer-range eye on the presidency of the U.S. He went home, crudely shoved aside Governor Goodwin Knight, forcing Knight to run for the Senate. Bitterly split by the Knowland power play, the California G.O.P. organization tore itself to shreds, and Knowland was buried in the ruins by pleasant, popular Democratic Attorney General Edmund ("Pat") Brown. The Republican Party of California lay wrecked on the shoals of Bill Knowland's ambition...
...wired the Soviet Writers' Union not to dishonor the great Russian literary tradition by "victimizing a writer revered by the entire civilized world." In Paris, François Mauriac, Albert Camus and Jules Romains expressed their disgust. The Authors League of America cabled that the U.S. writers most popular in Russia were "those who interpreted life in America most critically." and demanded that Pasternak have the right to express himself with the same "freedom and honesty...
Tall, gawky Dance Master Murray, 63, whose major contribution is to hop onstage like an arthritic flamingo at show's end and swirl his wife off-camera, is puzzled by the popularity of what is essentially a corny variety show with some dance-studio trimmings. Says he: "Maybe it's popular because they want a free dance lesson." Hostess Kathryn, at 52, still a petite 98 Ibs., tries a bit harder to understand. "I've a harsh, unattractive voice, but at least it's distinctive," she says. "The cab drivers always spot it. The other...