Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adlai Stevenson set off on his final campaign trip, a 14-day rail swing through the Central and Northeastern states. Throughout his campaign Stevenson had labored at a dual task: impressing his own character on the public mind and articulating his fear of the consequences of Republican victory. Now, with only a few days left until Nov. 4, he was trying to put across the two concepts simultaneously. As a result his public personality altered sharply from speech to speech...
...When he journeyed to Cordoba last month, elaborate safety precautions were taken. The official announcement said he would go by plane. But the presidential train was made ready at Buenos Aires' Retiro station, and word quickly leaked out that he was really going by rail. Then, with any would-be assassins doubly confused, he departed by yacht up the Paraná River, later completing the trip...
...defaulted bonds, exchanged them for 100,000 shares of common and preferred stock when the Rock Island was reorganized. Railroad Juggler Robert R. Young had exactly the same idea; he had picked up 250,000 shares, and wanted the Rock Island as a link in his projected transcontinental rail system...
Darby, who had been covering the White House for TIME, joined Dwight Eisenhower when "he checked in his uniform June 3," has traveled more than 30,000 miles by air and about 18,000 miles by rail in the past 4½ months. He first flew to Kansas with the general, stayed with him on the train trip to Abilene. When TIME decided to do an Eisenhower cover story (June 16), Darby spoke to him in one of the rare private interviews the candidate has given. Darby continued to cover Eisenhower through the nominating campaign and the convention itself...
...ever a professional so dominated his field as to deserve the misused term "genius," that man was Billiard Master Willie Hoppe. A touring prodigy at nine, Willie deserted straight rail billiards in his early teens as too simple a game: at 13 he made a consecutive run of 2,000. At 18 he won his first world championship at the more difficult game of 18.1 balkline.* Since then he has consistently held the world's best players at bay. Age has not noticeably withered Willie's wizard touch with a cue. Now a silver-haired 65, he holds...