Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leading contenders, some might wear themselves out doing dressing-room nip-ups before 1960, others might trip over the ropes while entering the ring, others might be kayoed with one presidential primary punch. There will always be more to take their places, but as of this week, six Democrats had emerged from the 1958 elections looking fittest. The six: Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy, Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson, California's Governor-elect Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, and New Jersey's Governor Robert Meyner...
...Nixon and Kennedy got good crowds, packed in a lot of visits. But Alaskans have deep feeling for Fred Seaton, who gets much of the credit for statehood. Next week if Alaska's voters surprise themselves by electing a few Republicans to office, Fred Seaton could once again take much of the credit...
...townspeople of Chester were stunned by the news. "Mr. White," said a filling-station operator, "was the nicest man who ever moved here. But they do say you shouldn't take a life." It was hard to decide who was the real victim -Dugan or White...
...your men!" Grateful citizens carried Hussein on their shoulders. Premier Samir Rifai informed the U.N. representative in Amman, Pier P. Spinelli, that the government intended to protest Syria's behavior to the U.N. Security Council. Jordan demanded an immediate meeting of the Arab League Council to take action. U.A.R. officials replied that Hussein's plane had been crossing Syria without proper clearance and had been intercepted by its MIGs in a routine and perfectly legal manner. Cairo newspapers ridiculed what they called "Hussein's heroics" and claimed his report of events was "a story dreamed...
Though Tokyo's 600 aging geishas still keep up their traditional routine-the three daily sessions in the public baths, the facial massage with costly nightingale dung, the rubbing of the feet with pumice stone-their number is steadily dwindling. Promising nymphets now prefer to take on more explicit and less demanding jobs as cabaret girls; young men in search of kicks favor the nude shows that flourish all over town. To compete with the cabarets, the geishas have taken up such desperate sidelines as juggling and playing the xylophone-a far cry from the haughty geishas who were...