Word: staking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind that announcement lay weeks of wrangling and hours of bone-tiring, closed-door committee sessions under Wilbur Mills, longtime reciprocal-trade advocate, whose hopes to be Sam Rayburn's successor as Democratic House Speaker might well be at stake in the success or failure of the trade bill. At one point Mills was so discouraged that he predicted total House defeat for reciprocal trade, urged the Administration to take responsibility for watering down its own program (TIME, May 19). When the Administration stood firm, Mills went back to work. The gizmo that finally won the Ways & Means Committee...
...Mormons keep scoring remarkable gains, have almost tripled their members (80% Maoris) in New Zealand to 17,000 in the last 30 years. They drew a crowd of 112,000 to a newly opened $8.000.000 church college and gleaming white temple, and this week set up the first Mormon "stake" -a sort of diocese -outside North
...hardest-working candidate of all, and the one with most at stake, was handsome former Premier Constantine Karamanlis, 51. Despite fever, coughs and stomachaches, he had traveled some 4,000 miles across Greece by plane, train, ship and car, raised his stentorian voice in all but six of the 55 electoral districts in Greece. Karamanlis had brought on the new elections himself by resigning his premiership as an answer to dissidents in his own party whose defection cost him his parliamentary majority. Under a caretaker government appointed by his strong supporter King Paul. Karamanlis helped ram through a new electoral...
...than the traditional "blood game," since the Bulldogs were usually fighting for first place and the Crimson battling to stay out of the cellar. Tomorrow, however, the two teams will face each other in New Haven with identical 1-3 Ivy League records and a fourth-place finish at stake...
...standings of the league will be at stake since a Crimson victory would give the varsity a 5-0 league record and a tie for first place with Dartmouth. If Penn wins, however, the Quakers, now in third place with a 3-1 record, will move into a second-place deadlock with the Crimson...