Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What happened in Texas is only one detail of the unsung political phenomenon of 1956: the widespread realization that Richard Milhous Nixon is a prime national asset to the Republican Party, not only because of his political skill but also because of his genuine appeal to the U.S. electorate. By Nov. 6 the young (43) Vice President will have traveled 42,000 miles by airplane, train and car, will have made more than 150 campaign speeches in 36 states.* He has been a field strategist as well as a campaigner, firing back his analysis of what other G.O.P. campaigners...
...race wide open. With its all-star backfield, Georgia Tech smothered a once-beaten Tulane team 40-0. Outplayed on the line, Colgate riddled a weak Yale pass defense to win 14-6. Vinceton thumped Cornell 32-21, mak-ng Princeton the only major Eastern earn still undefeated, and prime favorite o take the Ivy League championship. On he Pacific Coast, Stanford upset J.S.C. 27-19, to become the leading candidate for the Rose Bowl...
Died. Risto Heikki Ryti, 67, who became Finnish Prime Minister in 1939, led his country through the disastrous Russo-Finnish War, was elected President in 1940; of cancer; in Helsinki. Russia-hating Risto Ryti brought Finland into World War II on the Axis side (he disavowed Naziism, claimed a "defensive war") when Germany invaded Russia (June 1941), ignored Washington's insistence that Finland stop fighting with Russia. One month later Ryti was pressured out by his own Parliament, in 1946 began serving three years of a ten-year hard-labor sentence for "contributing to Finland's entry into...
Reaction in the world's capitals to the day's events ranged from firmness in London to rancorous denunciation in Cairo. The Conservative government of Prime Minister Eden beat off the verbal assaults of Labour leaders and London pickets, and survived four rigid votes of confidence...
Signe Hasso has plenty of lure, but the duet in the boudoir lags. And though Charles Carson makes an excellent Prime Minister, some of his Cabinet members fall short. Yet it is less that the production lets Shaw down than that he himself often needs inordinate holding...