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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Missouri's Stuart Symington. Running hard for prestige purposes against weak opposition, he bettered his 1952 showing, won a 375,000 plurality to establish a Missouri off-year record. Symington's advantage: he is No. 2 on nearly every list, presumably would pick up strong second-ballot support...
Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy. He logged 14,000 miles and 30 speeches for fellow candidates in 17 states, zipped off 5,000 miles through 185 Massachusetts towns. Kennedy's out-of-state legwork made many a Democrat indebted; Kennedy's backyard spading produced a record-breaking, 870,000-vote plurality for him and high-lift coattails for other Massachusetts Democrats...
...level ground at Colorado Springs. The student body was located temporarily at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base as the football team took on freshman and minor-college opposition with indifferent success. But last week the academy's Falcons found themselves in astonished possession of an unbeaten record in big-time competition, aspirations of national ranking. Reason: a 37-year-old coach named Ben Martin...
Russell Juarez Birdwell, a slimmed-down, mustachioed version of the late Bob Benchley, has a secretary in constant attendance to record his every word, suggests that his glibness is an inheritance from his father, a Texas revivalist preacher. From his mother, says the Bird, he got an appetite for cash. "She always insisted that we work and save. When I was small, I made money by trapping and skinning skunks.'' Young Birdwell soon learned that there are as many ways to make pocket money as there are to skin polecats. In high school and the University of Texas...
...stock market, along with the Democrats, swept to new highs last week. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose to a record 554.85, owing partly to some investors' fears of bigger spending and more inflation under the Democratic Congress. But many an investor had other good reasons for buying stocks, such as rising corporate earnings and continued recovery of the U.S. economy...