Word: roading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rocky's Road? Highly placed, Nixon-minded Republican politicos whistle in the dark that New York's governor Nelson Rockefeller, 50, will bow gracefully out of a 1960 contest with Vice President Nixon, 46, before an argument that, runs thus: 1) Rockefeller partisans will soon discover that Nixon has a solid, unbreakable, nationwide hold on state chairmen, national committeemen and convention delegates; 2) Rockefeller will announce next spring that he will not be a presidential candidate and that he intends to run for re-election as Governor in 1962; 3) Nixon will be re-elected President...
...influenced to some degree by special circumstances. The Varsity had whipped its Clinton, S.C., hosts by 6-3 the day before and was scheduled to leave for home immediately after the second match Saturday morning. Therefore, coach Jack Barnaby said, "the boys were more anxious to hit the road than to hit the tennis ball...
...home. But still the Khamba insurrection flourished. Encampments of the tribesmen began to dot the wide plain around Lhasa. They consolidated their hold on the barren, treeless region that runs along the borders of India, Bhutan and Sikkim. The nervous Chinese Reds countered by erecting watchtowers along the Lhasa road, sandbagged strategic positions around the city...
...possibilities for further desecration, as Miss Alderley envisioned them, were endless: Frank Sinatra as the defendant in Trial by Jury, charged with stealing a pizza pie; The Gondoliers remade into The Road to Venice, with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. It was even suggested to Dorothy Alderley that Elvis Presley might play Nanki-Poo. Snapped she: "I'd Nanki-Poo him if I could get my hands...
...literature for the larynx, calls Kris "one of the most favorable specimens of Rhodes scholarship" and "the kind of man you can trust to pick his own career." Stable Owner Lincoln finds his deep-thinking discovery "rather frightening." In case plans go sour, he has figured out an alternate road to fame. "If this doesn't work out," he told the well-muscled singer-scholar last week, "I can always launch you in wrestling...