Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lausche for the presidency. At a dinner party last summer, he calculated his chances at 1% ("Remember me," retorted Jane Lausche. "Make it one-half of 1%"). Though the odds have gone up in recent months, Lausche is still disinclined to bet on Lausche. "I will do nothing to reach the goal," he says. "The honor doesn't come from one's desire to attain it. A man should not seek office." A politically wise friend sees the Lausche strategy in another light. The governor, he thinks, has laid a tender trap. "He's a little like...
...counterespionage agents, his telephone tapped while he was heading the American desk at the Foreign Office, Maclean was allegedly driven to desperation, while the hell-raising Burgess was depicted as a man racked with "the greatest anxiety . . . caused by the fact that at first no modus vivendi was reached be tween the East and West, and later on no attempts were made to reach...
Rockets Above. When a hurricane comes within reach of Wallops Island, Va., the Navy will stand by to give it the works with two-stage rockets, which will soar 100 miles above it and take pictures of its spinning doughnut. The rockets' recording gear will be parachuted into the sea. When the blow is over, the instruments will call for help with small radio voices, and Navy rescue crews will hurry to pick them...
...road's cumulative voting system. Most important, Heineman's backers, who have promised to stick behind him in his bid for power, might not stick by him in an all-out proxy fight. Nevertheless, at week's end, the North Western board decided to try to reach a compromise with Heineman...
PRINCETON, N.J., Feb. 15--Princeton's hungry Tigers, with first place within their reach, handed a helpless Harvard quintet one of its most humiliating defeats in history, slaughtering the Crimson, 93 to 46, tonight...