Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California, a state where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by 1,000,000 voters, there is no such thing as a party machine, and politics are played by ear. Nixon has a small following of his own and so has Knight, but the rank-and-file of voters are not organized in factions. Before next year's convention, Goodie Knight, as governor, will probably be able to pick the California delegates personally; if he does, they will be Knight's pawns. Should Nixon force a showdown for control, Goodie will almost certainly beat him and mire down the Nixon...
Died. Msgr. Antoine Pierre Arida. 91, bearded patriarch of Antioch and all the Orient, spiritual leader of some 500,000 members of the Maronite rite of the Roman Catholic Church, one of the Church's eight patriarchs, who rank just below the College of Cardinals; in Beirut, Lebanon...
Land of Fury (J. Arthur Rank; Universal) is laid in New Zealand and has Maoris instead of Indians. Jack Hawkins acts the white settler in a manner wooden enough to qualify him as a Hollywood cowboy, while Glynis Johns is the ever-loving wife who forgives his playing games with a native enchantress named Laya Raki, even if the Maoris won't. Despite these novelties, the film very nearly talks itself to death before getting around to the big battle scene where all the adult whites are satisfactorily slaughtered. The film ends with a new boatload of settlers landing...
...first place, the appointment is in accord with the recently-announced policy of the General Education Committee that the chairman should be a man of permanent professorial rank and widely recognized academic standing...
GERMAN SHIPBUILDERS, who have been hitting it hard ever since 1950, and now rank second only to the United Kingdom, are threatening to run away with the market. In the first quarter alone, West Germany built 62 ocean-going ships totaling 244,000 tons, now has another 281 ships grossing 793,608 tons under construction. Though 40 % of the tonnage is for foreign owners, Germany hopes to have 3,000,000 tons afloat by 1956, some three-quarters of its prewar tonnage...