Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WRESTLING: December 14, Dartmouth; December 19, M.I.T.; January 12, Cornell; February 2, at Amherst; February 9, at Columbia; February 16, Pennsylvania; February 20, Springfield; February 23, Princeton; March 1, at Brown; March 9, at Yale; March 15 through 16, Eastern Intercollegiates at Penn State...
...schedule is: Dec. 19, M.I.T.; Jan. 12, at Army; Feb. 2, Navy; Feb. 6, at Springfield; Feb. 9, Cornell; Feb. 16, Dartmouth; Feb. 22, at Penn; Feb. 23, at Princeton; Feb. 27, Brown; Mar. 2, at Columbia; Mar. 9, Yale; Mar. 14-16, Eastern Intercollegiates; Mar. 28-30, N.C.A.A. championships at North Carolina...
Hopping the next day to Springfield, Ill., Stevenson had one of his rare campaign meetings with Running Mate Estes Kefauver, and between their assessments of the campaign ("Elated," said Adlai; "We are both very happy," said Estes), both pitched hard for the farm vote.† In language as plain as a silo on the skyline, Kefauver told a farmer-dominated audience of 5,000 that the Eisenhower-Benson farm program has been "one big flop from beginning to end." Stevenson then took over to charge Ike and the G.O.P. with "callous political perfidy," "self-righteous hypocrisy," "broken promises," and "duplicity...
Boos for Ike. The Springfield response was good enough to get him really steamed up for California. In San Francisco he poured on the sarcasm ("You've got to respect [Eisenhower's] clear and forthright opposition to inflation, deflation, fission, fusion and confusion, doubt, doom and gloom, fog and smog"). And once again he asked: "Are we seriously asked to trust . . . the decision over the hydrogen bomb to ... Nixon?" And once more, the crowd roared: "No!" In Los Angeles that night, 25,000 aggressive, confident Democrats caught the new spirit as Adlai carried on at Gilmore Field. They...
Rising Tide. "The Republican managers," he said to large and enthusiastic crowds in Springfield, Mass., "see America as a big, well-oiled company controlled by men who, because they run the big corporations, think they ought to run the country." Again and again he cried: "It is time to take the government away from General Motors and give it back to Joe Smith." But somewhere beneath his genteel belligerency there still lurked the elements of the enigma of 1952. "The tide is rising," said he in Newark, after a day of small and disappointing crowds in Democratic sections...