Word: tennesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese Security Pact and firm alliance with Red China and the Soviet Union. When the votes were in, Premier Kishi had won a clear victory, capturing 71 of the contested seats to 38 for the Socialists. The Socialists lost nearly a million votes-the first such fall-off in ten years. At party headquarters, Secretary-General Asanuma said glumly: "This calls for serious reflection by all Socialist leaders...
There is a strong military cast to Soka Gakkai: ten families constitute a squad; six squads a company; ten companies a local district; and 30 districts a regional chapter that is directly responsible to headquarters, which is governed by a Supreme Commander with six appointed aides. The faith is propagated through weekly meetings of squad members, where there are long group discussions of the personal problems of members and how to overcome them...
Palm Beach Matron Gregg Sherwood Dodge, 35, fifth wife of freewheeling Auto Heir Horace Dodge Jr., announced that she has raised $2.5 million in cash and pledges for "Girls' Town, U.S.A.," a haven to be built in southern Florida for "lost, frightened, abandoned girls from ten to 18 who need care and help." Gregg, a onetime chorus girl accused of adult delinquency in the past (charges of drunken driving, resisting arrest, slugging cops), made it clear that her nonsectarian, non-profit project is no transient whim. Said she soberly: "It would help to correct the alarming rate of violence...
...Arabs put mint in it, and it had become rancid," he explained. "Boy, was I sick!" "Everybody likes to break a record," he said after landing. "I finally decided to do it officially." He flew on to San Francisco, got an enthusiastic welcome from the two youngest of his ten children Francesco, 9 and Ann, 7. Said son Terry, 16: "He's the type of person who will just keep flying. I guess he'll fly until he drops dead...
...reported last week on 174 women (many over 70) who had had one or more heart attacks-in nearly every case a coronary occlusion. She divided them into two equal groups, matched as precisely as possible for age and severity of symptoms. One-half got a small daily dose (ten-millionths of a gram) of estrogen, the rest got none. After three years, more than twice as many in the nonestrogen group had died-virtually all from fresh heart attacks or general worsening of the disease...