Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet was won by Michigan State's Crawford Kennedy, who took first place for the second straight year with a winning time of 24 min., 21 sec. Kennedy, whose elder brother won the race two years ago, led the Spartans to their third consecutive team victory, and sixth in the past 11 years...
Michigan's GerhardMennen Williams. In winning an unprecedented sixth term as Governor, he lost polish. Reason: his 138,000 plurality was fifth best on the ticket, will discourage liberals outside Michigan from committing themselves, especially with Humphrey around...
...handily) a "toss-up." It missed Hugh Scott's Republican victory in Pennsylvania's Senate race, and Republican Senator John Bricker's defeat in Ohio. Getting right down to the congressional level, the Times stubbed its forecasting toe in some cases, e.g., in Michigan's Sixth Congressional District it predicted that Republican Charles Chamberlain (TIME, Oct. 27) would be turned out of office...
...intelligence testing gave parents of dull children the hope that their dimwitted offspring would blossom late; and tests taken throughout life ensured that when IQ went up-or down -jobs changed accordingly. Mere age, of course, commands no respect in a meritocracy; as IQ dips in the fifth or sixth decade of life, Young writes, "the managing director had to become an office mechanic . . . the professor an assistant in the library. There have been judges who have become taxi drivers, bishops curates, and publishers writers...
Married. Martha Raye, 42, singing comedienne; and Robert O'Shea, 31, Manhattan private eye, former Westport (Conn.) cop whose first wife filed an alienation-of-affections suit against Martha Raye; she for the sixth time, he for the second; by the mayor of Teaneck, N.J., in the mayor's living room...