Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face was Welburn S. Mayock, Washington lawyer, loyal Democrat and self-styled "political manager." Now a grizzled, paunchy 59, Mayock began politicking as a 14-year-old Democratic precinct worker in his native California, rose to be counsel to the treasurer of the national committee in 1944-46, organizer and treasurer of the national Truman-Barkley Club in 1948. Often called "Judge Mayock," he explains that the title is a "phony," conferred by friends who wanted to "adorn a person of no importance...
Vice Squad (Levy and Gardner; United Artists) introduces the stream-of-consciousness technique at the precinct level. What James Joyce did in Ulysses for Leopold Bloom, this picture does for a detective captain. And though a day in the life of a flatfoot does not exactly provide many Joycean transfigurations-especially when the flatfoot is Edward G. Robinson -the film does leave the audience feeling like a thoroughly chewed cigar...
...police hustled 52 of the pickets, including the priests, to the nearest precinct. While the contest judges slowly settled on their choice, the cops made a lengthy check on the pickets to determine whether their identity cards were in order. It took them until 5 a.m., when by happy coincidence, the Argentina had just locked up tight, to decide that everybody's cards were in order. With a sigh of relief, the cops sent the priests and their followers home, secure in the knowledge that their country had a new Miss Greece: 19-year-old Fedora Xyrou...
...Boss George Parr. Originally, Jim Wells turned in a count of 1,786 for Johnson, 769 for Coke Stevenson. Then, six days later, the county reported a corrected count: Johnson 1,988, Stevenson 770. The correction put Johnson over. Stevenson charged fraud, but the polling list and ballots from Precinct 13 (where Stevenson said the fraud occurred) could not be found. They have not been found yet. Johnson won all the legal battles, and a new nickname: "Landslide Lyndon...
...mustachioed ex-dean of the University of Buenos Aires' law school, grand old man of Argentine socialism, veteran of 70 duels. Also in jail: ex-Senator Nicolas Repetto, 81. "Unheard of!" barked Palacios to a fellow inmate as he tramped across the patio of Buenos Aires' 23rd precinct station during the prisoners' exercise period. "Under arrest without charges! There is no more respect for old age and venerability...