Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unanswered Question. That evening, after Capitol Hill's most emotional debate of the year, 17 Democrats joined up with 26 Republicans to kill the Kennedy amendment by a single vote, 43 to 42. No Senator likes to go on record as voting for anything that could possibly be interpreted as helping Communism: that is why Dwight Eisenhower's firm and forthright approval was needed. Cried George Aiken, his eyes glistening with tears: "I am amazed by the statement that the President does not favor the proposal. Why did he let the Secretary of State favor it all this...
...systems -mostly vintage masterpieces of political patchwork-that the U.S. Census Bureau needs about eleven months to reckon a firm figure for the actual money spent by all states in any given year. Last week Census popped up with its tally on spending by states for fiscal 1957: a record $21,084,666,000, up 12% in the same year that federal expenditures (including state-run federal-aid programs) climbed only 4%. Since fiscal 1946, when legislatures set to work on the backlogged needs for schools and roads, hundreds of little hikes in taxes and debts have...
...Alabama the Democratic Party last week pledged itself to the brand of extremist politics that has been rife in the South since Little Rock. Items: EURJ In the runoff primary for Governor, Attorney General John Patterson, 36, piled up a record vote to defeat Circuit Judge George Wallace by 64,388 even after Patterson had been unmasked as the favorite of Ku Klux Klan leaders and had made a public appeal for the votes of Klansmen. Opponent Wallace, himself an unhooded knight of white supremacy, first attacked Patterson for his K.K.K. ties, then shut up when he saw that...
Great Britain's high-spirited, accident-prone Duke of Kent, 22, whose driving record includes four flashy cars, four spectacular crackups, turned in his turquoise Aston Martin sports coupe, damaged in a spin on an icy road last December, for a new red 3.4-litre Jaguar sedan...
...dusty streets, urchins rock to the pennywhistle's fast kwela beat; in shabby speakeasies, women shuffle to its slower marabi rhythm. Among natives who earn only $20 a month, pennywhistle records (75 ? apiece) are selling at the rate of 1,000 a day. By this spring, the rage had crossed to Britain, where a song called Tom Hark became the top jukebox hit so fast that record companies have ordered a half dozen new pennywhistle tunes. Princess Margaret herself has cut some kwela steps. Pennywhistle records will soon liven U.S. jukeboxes; American jazzmen (including Clarinetist Tony Scott, Saxophonist...