Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Running for Governor of Alabama last year, hard-jawed young (37) John Patterson could match racist slogans with the best of his opponents-and he had a record of action to back up his stump talk. As Alabama's attorney general, Patterson had helped get the N.A.A.C.P. banned from the state, taken legal action against a Tuskegee Negro boycott of downtown stores and against Montgomery Negroes when they boycotted city buses. On that basis, Patterson was elected Governor. But by last week, John Patterson had discovered to his embarrassment that the irresponsible promise held out during a campaign...
Curiously, Europe's leaders were not waiting to tell Eisenhower what to say to Khrushchev; none seemed to have any fresh ideas about that. They wanted to talk about their own problems-mostly with one another. Though European leaders seemed to favor Khrushchev's U.S. visit, it had the side effect of demoting their own importance, and led them to jostle with one another. The Eisenhower mission to Europe was thus likely to prove far different-and far more complex-than originally anticipated...
...Turkish Custom. Early the following morning, while McCuistion was still being held incommunicado, Turkish police picked up U.S. Air Force Sergeant Giacomo Recevuto, of Brooklyn. And that afternoon Izmir Police Chief Nevzat Emrealp informed NATO authorities that he wanted to have "a little talk" about currency black-marketing with two other U.S. sergeants, James D. King of Ruth, Miss, and Joseph Proietti of Mt. Kisco, N.Y. Emrealp did not mention that his men had already extracted from the Turkish manager of the NATO noncoms' club in Izmir a confession implicating King-a confession subsequently repudiated by the club manager...
...congratulate one another, a worrier may still brood. Now that an evening of parlor singing can be bought at a record store, eliminating the need for any actual singing in the parlor, why not a night's recorded conversation, eliminating the need to talk? Possible titles: Sneer Along with Mort Sahl, Rant and Rave with Senator Eastland, Analyze with Famous Freudian and Moan and Groan with Joseph Alsop...
...College All-Star Football Game (ABC, 9:30 p.m.). Out of season but welcome as usual, last year's campus heroes tangle with last year's pro champs, the Baltimore Colts. Red Grange will talk it up at every whistle...