Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Targets for Democrats: ¶Homer Ferguson: A few months ago, Democrats were confident of toppling Ferguson. Now they are not so sure. Fence-mending his way through 46 of Michigan's 83 counties, he has dropped his ponderous, fault-finding manner and shown friendly skill as a campaigner who appears at wedding receptions, fraternal meetings and county fairs...
Business, editorial, and photographic board competitions will be run like the news comp. Writing skill and ability to think clearly count heavily for editorial...
...startling as his cleanup was the skill and authority with which Ruiz Cortines carried it out. Mild and unassuming personally, the new President nevertheless grasped his great powers firmly. His methods reminded one subordinate of the story of Abraham Lincoln polling his Cabinet, finding all eight opposed to his view, then announcing: "Eight nays, one aye; the ayes have it." Though he has held only two Cabinet meetings since taking office...
...wore beautifully embroidered costumes from the Andean highlands and a fascinating suit of woven palm-fiber armor made for a South Sea island warrior. There were tiny statues, ceremonial masks, hoes and puppets from such widely separated areas as Borneo, Europe and Africa, all done with the same careful skill. And outside, the museum will soon set up its most ambitious project of all: a complete fisherman's cottage brought over from Sweden, the first of an international village to show how different peoples of the world solve their living problems...
...over his lack of recognition, Hepburn dropped training last year, passed up tryouts for Canada's Olympic weight-lifting team. But a few Vancouverites had begun to take him seriously. Goaded to enter this year's world weight-lifting championships in Stockholm, Hepburn consented to show his skill at a Canadian Legion meeting, at a baseball park between innings. For his traveling expenses, the take, plus donations, came to $1,377. With a sprained ankle and no coach, he departed for Sweden last month...