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...double senatorial extravaganza is the result of the death this summer of Brian McMahon, Fair-Dealing senator from Norwalk. Running for the four-year term left by the death of McMahon are Democrat A. A. Ribicoff and Republican Prescott Bush. The regular six-year term is being contested by the incumbent Senator William Benton, a Democrat, and William Purtell, Republican. Also after the six-year seat are two splinter-party candidates who, in traditionally close Connecticut contests, may gain enough votes to decide the elections--far right Vivian Kellems and so called Socialist Jasper McLevy...
...six-year term the Republicans have again nominated a complete neophyte to politics. Bill Purtell has been a businessman all his life and a good one; he is president of the Holo-Krome Screw Company, which, despite the fact that it is non-unionized, has enjoyed admirable labor relations. Purtell's big drawback in industrial Connecticut is the fact that in the years since 1947 he has been both vice-president and president of the Connecticut Association of Manufacturers, an organization which has consistently opposed welfare measures in the state. Bill Benton's speechwriters are working hard on the record...
When the kingdom of Israel was governed by the Law, farmers scrupulously deserted their fields at the end of each six-year period. Throughout the sabbatical year, called shmita, the whole land lay fallow. The ancient Jews ate only meat and the grain they had stored, trusting in the Lord's bounty to see them through their man-made drought...
Born: May 2, 1935 in Bagdad's Palace of Flowers. Son of fast-living, wild-driving King Ghazi who died at 27, bashed against a light pole in an auto accident, after a turbulent, disappointing six-year reign...
Juan Peron's second inauguration for a six-year presidential term should have been one of the gaudiest occasions of his career. Instead, the pampas dictator ordered all ceremonies severely curtailed, and did not even make a speech. Though economy was given as the reason for such unwonted austerity, few doubted that Peron's real reason was the failing health of his wife Evita...