Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only Eisenhower's kind of fight-an approach by the Republican Party to the people-could be won. Only by thwarting the will of the people in the delegate contests could Ike's bid for the nomination have been stopped. The plot and subplot meshed in the pre-convention first act, and the convention played out both without missing a line...
...Taft tacticians had been brilliant at Chicago, they might have wormed their way out of the corner in which they had been placed by their own pre-convention strategy and the Brownell-Lodge counterstrategy. The Taft tacticians were anything but brilliant...
Cabot Lodge, Ike's campaign manager, made many a pre-convention tactical error, but on his basic analysis of the contending forces and on top strategy, he was dead right...
...Trouble. With three other candidates running, the campaign had been about as lively as one-party rule permits. Multimillionaire General Miguel Henriquez Guzman made a particularly spirited bid, and some 22 partisans were killed in pre-election scuffles. But by the time the PRI poured 85 million pesos ($9,800,000) into the campaign and Ruiz Cortines toured through towns and hamlets all over the republic, the government had things well sewed up. On the actual day of balloting, 80,000 armed troops and police stood guard; not a single shot was fired, and only two men were arrested...
...Information Please veterans recovered their sprightly aplomb when the second show rolled around this week (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). Adams and Kieran were back in pre-TV form, and Actor-Producer Gregory Ratoff as guest expert, a heavy hunk of a man with a rich, thick Russian accent, was the life of the show ("Theese ees my telewision debut, and all my friends are vatching, I shouldn't be dumb"). Sprinkling his comments with warm humor, he managed to answer a number of questions-mostly musical-that stumped his colleagues cold. For Information Please fans, it was beginning...