Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Oregon's Richard Neuberger died in 1960, his vivacious wife Maurine ran for his U.S. Senate seat and easily won herself a full six-year term. Hardly as controversial as her husband, she performed unspectacularly for a couple of years as the Senate's Other Woman, its Democratic opposite number to Maine Republican Margaret Chase Smith...
Owned jointly by Kentucky's A. B. ("Bull") Hancock Jr. and Virginia's William Haggin Perry, Moccasin seems to have inherited all her family's good traits, none of the bad. Ridan was an incorrigible people-hater who ran away with his exercise boys. Lt. Stevens once threw Jockey Johnny Heckmann so heavily that Heckmann was out of action for two months. Moccasin, insists Trainer Harry Trotsek, 53, is "a perfect lady," so mild-mannered and businesslike that Trotsek refuses to take any personal credit for her success. "Good horses," he says, "overcome all sorts of things...
...pirate's, eager to outdrink, outgamble and outperform any other Clansman. Finally there were the unkindest cuts of all-from the Negro press, resentful of Davis' growing reputation for all-night all-white parties. "Howcum we never see Sammy Davis hangin' on the corner up here?" ran the cartoon in a Harlem paper. "You crazy, man? Sammy ain't colored no more...
...rate of $25.7 billion. This unfavorable turn has cut the U.S. trade surplus from last year's $6.8 billion to $5.3 billion and frustrated attempts to achieve a surplus in the overall balance of payments. The Commerce Department, which last week estimated that U.S. payments ran a deficit of $200 million to $400 million during the third quarter, expects the nation to dip into the red by some $1.5 billion for the full year...
...prove the effectiveness of its own credit card, the Bank of America earlier this year hired a comely San Francisco secretary named Ann Foley to live on it-and nothing else-for a month. Miss Foley went pretty far on the Bank-Americard: she ran up $1,728.98 in bills for the nation's largest bank, found that about the only inconveniences she suffered were having to hire cars instead of cabs, avoiding tolls and passing up soft drink machines. Now U.S. banks are busy trying to discover just how far they can go with credit cards...