Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Youngest Man. Dick's father was respected across the state as a lawyer, and was appointed to state offices all the way up to Georgia's chief justice, but he was defeated whenever he tried to run for such popular-vote offices as governor. Young Dick was concerned about his father's failures. Once he went with his father to the governor's mansion in Atlanta and said: "Daddy, I want to live here someday." And in 1931, after learning about military discipline at Gordon Military College, law at the University of Georgia, politics...
...moderate, pro-government People's Radicals drew 2,128,072 votes. Lawyer Arturo Frondizi's Intransigent Radicals, who had ardently wooed the Peronista vote, even promising to dissolve the Assembly if they gained control, trailed with 1,839,545. Juan Perón, in his time a popular tyrant who once polled close to 5,000,000 votes, drew fewer than 2,000,000 blank protest ballots in spite of the well-organized, well-financed campaign he had conducted from his Venezuelan exile...
...despite Zanzibar's isolation and contentment, the cry for independence began to be heard. It was the Arabs who did the stirring. Last year Britain agreed that six of the twelve "unofficial" members of the Sultanate's 25-man legislative council should be elected by popular vote from an election roll open to all, regardless of race. The newly formed, Arab-led Nationalist Party was delighted, and its leader, Sheikh Ali Muhsin Barwani, 38, a well-educated Zanzibar Arab, boldly filed for office not in a "safe" constituency of Arabs but for Ngambo (literally, the Other Side...
...Johnny Mathis; Columbia). One of the freshest young practitioners of the crewcut, scrubbed-voice style made popular by Pat Boone, Mathis quavers out his fast-selling ballad and all but soft-sells himself out of the lady's vision: "We may never meet again, but then...
...Like Father?" No TV star, however popular, is immune from the angry viewer. Garry Moore (real name: Thomas Garrison Morfit) once announced that he was giving St. Christopher medals to members of his staff. Some viewers, believing him to be Jewish, berated him for hypocrisy in giving a Catholic talisman. Others, taking him for a Catholic, admonished him for plugging his religion. Says Episcopalian Moore: "If you say 'Happy Mother's Day,' someone's going to write in and say, 'What's the matter? You don't like your father...