Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican Representatives and one Democratic. In 1956, the six winners each got 55% or less of the vote-and on that basis it is conceivable that all six could switch this time. Against the lone Democratic incumbent, Floyd Breeding, Republicans have put up Cliff Hope Jr., son of vastly popular, Benson-needling Cliff Hope Sr., who retired from the House before the 1956 elections. But young Cliff has not yet shown his father's vote-getting abilities and is at best...
...incandescent personality. In a prayer to Mary he once asked that all men be made to "feel the attraction of Christian goodness." That was what most men felt in the presence. It was in a sense ironic that this sophisticated diplomat, member of old Roman aristocracy, should become so popular a Pope. Before World War II, a papal audience for a layman was a prestigious and protocol-encrusted enterprise. Under Pius XII, however, a visit to the Pope was heartwarming and almost informal (he often studied the sports pages of newspapers as carefully as the political news, because at many...
Angelo Giuseppe Cardinal Roncalli, 77, Patriarch of Venice, is popular, devoted to charitable works, nonpolitical, lives up to his cardinal's motto: "Obedientia...
...century - "A man is as old as his arteries" - may have to be revised to "A man is as old as his enzymes." Then, as researchers unravel the mys teries of enzyme chemistry, enzyme supplements for mature men and women may adorn the breakfast table, instead of the currently popular but cruder vitamins...
Like much of aging (73) Author Dinesen's fiction, some of these Anecdotes are too fey or too coy for popular consumption. But they have a place of their own in that special realm that authors never tire of exploring-the realm in which artistry, be it Shakespeare's or a cook's, seems more real than reality itself...