Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kefauver spurted ahead at the start. There were no major surprises. The favorite-son states stuck to their candidates. The Southern states held a solid front for Richard Russell. Result of the first ballot: Kefauver 340, Stevenson 273, Russell 268, Harriman 123½, Kerr 65, Barkley...
Instead of trying his hand at other products, as many other planemakers did. he took a gamble and stuck to planes. He built 50 Stratocruiser airliners, sold them -and lost $13.5 million. But Allen cashed in in a more important way. With the Stratocruisers, he held together his top-notch engineering staff under Wellwood E. Beall, the engineering genius who directed the design of World War II's B-17 and B29, and later the building of the B-52. His staff set to work designing the B-47 medium bomber, landed $17.7 million in contracts...
Heaven or Hell? Apparently unmoved by the pleas of one & all, Stevenson stuck to his now familiar story. While avid newsmen lay on the floor of an adjoining room eavesdropping under a heavy curtain, Stevenson told a "secret" session of the Illinois delegation that he was not "temperamentally, physically or mentally" equipped for the presidency. Insisting once again that all he wanted to be was governor of Illinois, he recalled the story of the man who had been asked whether he wanted to go to heaven or hell. The answer: "I want to stay right here...
Love's Labor Lost. In Izmir, Turkey, when Salih Ozcan decided to play Don Juan to a neighbor's wife, he waited until the husband had left home, got hopelessly stuck trying to enter the house by way of the chimney, was rescued by neighboring farmers who pulled down the chimney to get him out, received a severe beating, six months in jail, and the bill for a new chimney...
...around his neck under his shirt. With it, he took 108 pictures of the meeting. Next day he had an addition. He picked up two copies of a fat book (The World's Greatest Doers- The Story of Lions, by Robert Casey and W.A.S. Douglas), hollowed them out, stuck them together, and fitted a Contax camera into them. With this contraption, Miller snapped most of a roll of film before the camera was spotted by a sergeant-at-arms. Cameraman Miller was waved...