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...represents a meeting of the minds of all three judges. But it does happen that they sometimes do all their meeting by mail. We prefer it if they get together." Being a aDna Reed Prize judge is, it seems, a far from unnerving experience. The novelist Jean Stafford, a judge in 1954--the year that produced the award's most notable recipient, John Updike '55--declared recently that "I had more pleasure reading for this than almost anything; judging the young you have no reputation to worry about. The name Updike meant nothing to me, of course. But from...
...earliest meetings of the North Atlantic pact, Paul Henri Spaak provoked a good deal of laughter by rolling an orange along the conference table to soothe an angry and hungry Sir Stafford Cripps. The idea that prompted him has become a tradition in NATO negotiations: on the ability of its members to settle their differences quickly and without rancor depends the happiness and security of the West...
...triumph of Representative William H. Meyer, Vermont's first Democratic Representative in 106 years, was short. After just one term in the House, where he was marked for his pacifist speeches, he was defeated by Republican Governor Robert Stafford by 24,000 votes...
Republicans retained their supremacy as Gov. Robert Stafford unseated Democratic phenomenon Rep. William Meyer, gubernatorial candidate F. Ray Keyser won easily, and Nixon, like every GOP Presidential candidate in history, took the state's three electoral votes...
Will Meyer be re-elected? In 1951 won on a fluke, running against a whom even Republican Party regular call "an idiot." In 1960, the campaign much together; Stafford is a slick, read candidate whose words may what the people of Vermont want hear. To win the state, Meyer the Democrats must attract at least per cent of the Republican vote, before counting on most of the Democratic Independents. His chances are less and even...