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Barring a military coup or an uprising far stronger than Castro has been able to mount thus far, Rivero Aguero was a shoo-in. Whether he would ever really run the country was another question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Trappings of Election | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...Brown can lead his party to an across-the-board sweep this year and come even close to maintaining his pace while in office, then a Democratic state legislature will control the post-census redistricting in 1961. Already Democratic planners have figured out how to gerrymander for 22 shoo-in Democratic districts against 15 Republican possibles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Just Plain Pat | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...five of the most furious, fantastic days and nights in New York's political history, Democratic leaders in Buffalo fought, shoved, shouted and wept-and came perilously close to kicking away their campaign before it even got started. With Governor Averell Harriman an uncontested shoo-in for renomination, the brawl came on the nomination of a candidate for the U.S. Senate. The ultimate nominee: New York County's five-term District Attorney Frank Hogan, 56. The real winner in the party fracas: New York County's Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio, after a polished display...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Buffalo Brawl | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...Only one anonymous American League lover prevented a jury of baseball writers from voting unanimously to give Milwaukee's great lefthander, 'Warren Spahn, the Cy Young award as best pitcher in the majors. But by the 15-1 tally, Spahn was a shoo-in. At 36, he shows no sign of tiring. While pitching the Braves to the pennant, he won 21 games, lost only 11, equaled a National League record for lefthanders by finishing his eighth season with 20 or more victories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Dec. 9, 1957 | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

...isolate the pure amino acid extract. This year's group of five students will start to identify the acids. Silber pays his boys and girls 35? an hour ("enough for bus fare and supper money, but not enough to make the project a job"), often has to shoo them out of the lab at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High-School Researchers | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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