Word: pushed
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Different Tack. Nonetheless, Dirksen is determined to enact a constitutional amendment that would overrule at least part of the one-man, one-vote doctrine by permitting the states to select one house of their legislatures on a basis other than population. Twice, his efforts to push such amendments through the Senate were defeated by seven votes. Now the Illinois Senator is off on a different tack...
Died. Alfred E. Lyon, 81, longtime head of Philip Morris, Inc. as president (1945-49) and board chairman (1949-57); of cancer; in Stamford, Conn. An ebullient Britisher, Lyon arrived in the U.S. in 1912 and swiftly showed his Yank cousins what the word salesman meant, getting dealers to push Philip Morris by helping dust their shelves, paying college students to pass out free smokes to friends, sweet-talking nightclub ciggie girls into handing customers only Philip Morris when they'd ordered another brand; by 1933, he was the company's vice president for sales and there created...
Penn and Princeton, while they stayed with the other two crews, did not make a serious push until just before the 1000-meter mark. By 500-meters-to-go, the race had spread out a bit: Cornell by a length over Pennsylvania, and almost even with Princeton, which held a half-length over Harvard...
...midst of their Green Key weekend, the hosts seemed unable to shake off the wine, women, and song and get down to playing lacrosse. They completely dominated the first half yet only managed to push one of 13 shots past Harvard goalie Bob Norton...
Would you believe: That during World War II the Allies were warned weeks in advance of the blitzkrieg invasions of Poland, Holland, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Norway and Denmark? That Stalin received a verbatim plan of "Operation Barbarossa"-the crushing German push into Russia-more than a month before it happened? And that nobody in Moscow or The Hague or Whitehall or Washington did anything about those warnings...