Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...electronic brain which the Columbia Broadcasting System hired to provide cold and early mathematical calculation of election trends. But Univac turned out to be as cautious as a pollster in the hands of cautious masters. At 10 o'clock, an assistant to Adlai Stevenson stated in Springfield, 111.: "The news is not good and it looks pretty grim." But it was nearly 10:30 before Univac found the same kind of perspicacity, calculated that Ike would win by 314 electoral votes to Stevenson's 217 (or 27 million popular votes to Stevenson's 24 million).* G.O.P. Chairman...
Election night Stevenson settled down to listen to the increasingly disheartening returns on a portable radio in a ground-floor office of the Illinois governor's mansion at Springfield. At 12:40 in the morning, when Democratic hopes were clearly dead, he drove over to his election-eve campaign headquarters in Springfield's Leland Hotel. Smiling as the Democratic crowd loyally chanted "We want Stevenson," the governor, in a generous and graceful speech, conceded the election to Dwight Eisenhower. Said he: "The people have rendered their verdict, and I gladly accept it. General Eisenhower has been a great...
...SPRINGFIELD, MASS, went all out to raise $1,198,750, the largest sum it ever collected in a voluntary drive. Six thousand volunteers went from door to door, decorated store windows, took part in rallies for shops and factories...
This same determination has been seen rarely at Soldiers Field this year, the team beating Springfield, Washington U. and Davidson on the basis of sheer physical superiority...
...Hank Rate, who had been hurt the week before against Springfield, was joined on the sidelines by outside tackle Bob Stargel, who developed an car infection...