Word: rhode
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Victorious in three campaigns for governor of Rhode Island, Democrat Dennis J. Roberts faced a new kind of threat last fall. Republican Challenger Christopher Del Sesto could entice heavily Italian-American Rhode Island with an Italian name. He was also a well-known, friendly ex-Democrat who had gagged ten years ago on Democratic bureaucracy. Last week, completing a count of absentee and shut-in ballots that has dragged on since Nov. 20, weary election supervisors finally confirmed Denny Roberts' fears. Winning by a slim 427 votes out of almost 390,000 cast, stocky, greying Chris Del Sesto...
...presidential election, 62,025,576 Americans voted (an estimated 77.4% of the total eligible), breaking the previous record, set in 1952, by 473,658. Final official returns (except Rhode Island, where a handful of absentee ballots remained to be counted), computed last week, showed Republican Dwight Eisenhower with 35,575,420, giving him a plurality of 9,542,354 over Democrat Adlai Stevenson, whose total was 26,033,066. Ike's margin of actual votes was the largest ever awarded a Republican candidate, but still ran second to Franklin Roosevelt's 11,072,014-vote plurality over Republican...
...sentence from this will serve better than any other to explain just why the Rhode Scholarships have come to stand for such a general mark of all-around excellence: "In awarding the scholarships great consideration shall be given to those who have shown during school days that they have instincts to lead and take an interest in their schoolmates which attributes will be likely in after life to guide them to esteem the performance of public duties as their highest...
When he ran for re-election in 1954, Rhode Island's sprightly Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green got mad, as Democrats will, at the Republicans. "They said I was too old to run for Senator again, and that people would vote against me," he recalls. "I said I had made up my mind to serve until I am 100, and that ended that!" In London last week, after ten days in Paris as a NATO conference delegate, Senator Green, 89, became "he oldest man ever to serve in the Congress, surpassing the record of North Carolina's late...
With both sextets bolstered by members of two excellent 1955 freshman squads, more than ten sophomores are expected to be in the first two lineups for the teams at the Rhode Island Auditorium...