Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state that sent the La Follettes to the U.S. Senate-and then sent Joe McCarthy-last week changed its political direction again. In a startling and significant upset, voters of Wisconsin elected Liberal Democrat Edward William Proxmire (see box) to complete the unexpired term of Neanderthal Republican McCarthy. Proxmire beat Eisenhower Republican and former six-year Governor Walter Jodok Kohler Jr. by an overwhelming 435,000 votes to 313,000. He swept 56 of the state's 71 counties, every single ward in the city of Milwaukee, ten out of 18 Milwaukee suburbs...
...reporter for the New Dealing Madison Capital Times, as business manager for the local A.F.L.'s Union Labor News, bought a half-interest in a printing plant in Waterloo (pop. 1,667). In 1950 he put on a handshaking campaign for the state assembly, ousted a six-term incumbent in the Democratic primary and later beat the Republican candidate by a 2-1 margin. He went on to write a record as a diligent researcher into tax problems, a highroad critic of high-riding Joe McCarthy and a smiling sort who took defeat good-naturedly. The defeats...
...their employers. At the Edinburgh Festival, tempestuous Soprano Maria Callas waved a note from her doctor, walked out on Milan's La Piccola Scala (her second such disappearance this summer), said she was going back to Italy, explained: "I'm tired." In Hollywood, irked by a long-term contract with Columbia Pictures that calls for a humiliating $1,250 a week, straw-haired Kim Novak refused to show up for a film, was suspended by her exasperated bosses just in time to catch a hopperful of publicity as her latest film, Jeanne Eagels, opened in Manhattan...
...strange love story. Hemingway fans, anticipating how the movie might mistreat the tragic circumstance of the hero's sexual impotency resulting from a battle wound, will be happy to learn that Jake Barnes (sensitively played by Tyrone Power) is informed of his deficiency in exactly that term-"impotent." Nor is there any pussyfooting about the nymphomania of the heroine, who settles for all men in lieu of Jake whom she loves; as man-crazy Lady Ashley (Brett), Ava Gardner turns in the most realistic performance of her career. The other major characters also rise to true book size...
...Goodie Knight is having none of this. In a statement drafted this week, Knight announced with finality that he will campaign for another term. Forswearing any presidential ambitions of his own, he added a well-placed kick at Knowland's shins. Said Knight: "The Republican Party in California has two potential contenders for the presidency of the U.S. in 1960, both able and distinguished men. The governor's office is far too important to the welfare of the people of this state to be allowed to become a pawn in the presidential contest. No candidate should be pressed...