Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standout place for a retardation could well be in the $5-billion-a-year program for subsidizing and spoon-feeding U.S. agriculture. But the Administration, full knowing that the current price-support program is a scandalous failure (TIME, Aug. 19), is afraid to attack revision in a congressional election year...
Under the Gun. Even though he had won his 1954 election by a landslide, even though he still holds broad popular support in a general election, Knight could see that he had hardly a chance of winning the gubernatorial primary-and that his fight could only hurt his party. When word of his decision to run for the Senate seeped out, other California Republicans joined in happy sighs with Norman Chandler: "It will be a relief to get this thing settled...
Behind the Times. Most of the pressure came from Publisher Norman Chandler of the GOPolitically mighty Los Angeles Times. Fearing a Knight-Knowland battle that could wreck California Republicanism, Chandler sent Goodie three urgent pleas to get out of the gubernatorial race, at the same time promised him support for the Senate. The first came about a month ago. The last was delivered in person by Chandler's wife Buff. Said she last week: "Goodie and I are old friends. I told him I felt he couldn't win. If that influenced him, I don't know...
...grown women. First sign of kuru is a slight trembling of the arms and legs on exertion. At this stage it subsides with rest. But a month to three months later the victim's head shakes, he begins to sway and stumble, and needs a walking stick for support. Within two months more, he is unable to stand or walk, has to be half-carried to tribal pig feasts. In this stage occur the outbursts which have caused kuru to be dubbed the laughing death. Speech gradually becomes more and more slurred until it is unintelligible. Nearly every victim...
...Lampoon sent a letter to the Princetonian apoligizing in full for its editorial and declaring that "unwarranted seriousness has been attached to the matter by both Harvard and Princeton." In their apology, they admitted that they had "committed a breach of good taste which did not have the support of the Harvard undergraduates." The pot, it seemed, had cooled...