Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nobody heard him. But Jack Kennedy is not the sort to be defeated by a weak amplifying system. Shouting as though he were on the West Virginia campaign stump, he recalled the longtime bonds between the U.S. and France, praised France as the "leading artistic power in the world. In view of the recent meeting at Nassau, I must note further that this painting has been kept under careful French control, and that France has even sent along its own commander in chief, M. Malraux, and I want to make it clear that grateful as we are for this painting...
...attempted an adaptation of Euripides' Electra. Up to a point, the attempt excitingly succeeds. The performers, most notably Irene Papas, who interprets Electra, move with the dignity of figures in a ritual, speak with a largeness suggesting incantation. And the settings-a bucolic vale in Attica, the rude stump of the great palace at Mycenae-breathe a legendary grandeur...
...stump, Lesage alternately roused crowds with shafts aimed at the Union Nationale's aromatic past ("Purgatory has not lasted long; hellfire is needed to purge them!"), and lectured to them on his nationalist theme that French Canada must come of age economically. His key issue was nationalization of Quebec's eleven private power companies. The opposition cried socialism, but drew little response in a nation where six of the ten provinces have 100% public power. Quebec's private companies operate mostly in rural areas, and, cried Lesage. do not have the resources to provide first-class service...
...faced one another because of redrawn district lines. In only one of them did a Republican lose. He was Pennsylvania's Ivor Fenton, a 24-year veteran, dean of the state's G.O.P. delegation. At 73, Fenton simply was not as articulate or as agile on the stump as Democrat George Rhodes, 64, a liberal who will be starting his 15th year in the House. The six Democrats sidelined by Republican incumbents were Massachusetts' Thomas Lane, North Carolina's Paul Kitchin, Kansas' J. Floyd Breeding, Illinois' Peter F. Mack Jr., West Virginia...
Died. Howard Roger Garis, 89, creator of a kindly, top-hatted rabbit named Uncle Wiggily as an extra assignment from his police beat on the Newark (N.J.) Evening News in 1909, who went on to write 200 children's books of the bunny's adventures in Hollow Stump with Fuzzy Wuzzy Nurse Jane and Dr. Possum that sold more than 5,000,000 copies; of leukemia; in Northampton, Mass...