Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hours before the newspapers were ready to concede anything, Minnesota's )ouncy senior Democratic Senator, Hubert Horatio Humphrey strode into the headquarters of the Democratic-Farmer- Labor Party in Minneapolis to congratulate Five-Term Congressman Eugene McCarthy for winning Minnesota's second senate seat. Humphrey knew his voters; as the hours rolled by, McCarthy rolled to a 70,000 margin victory over Stassenite Republican Ed Thye, and the D.F.L.'s popular Governor, Orville Freeman, roared to re-election by 161,000 votes for a third term. Long before dawn it was clear that for the first time...
...They Won. Characteristically, the D.F.L.'s detail planning for Gene McCarthy's victory began last May. The problem: Republican Senator Thye, 62, two-term Eisenhower Republican incumbent, had a great personal following of fellow Scandinavians, fellow Lutherans, fellow farmers; the D.F.L.'s challenger Gene McCarthy, onetime St. John's University economics professor and ten-year Congressman, was 1) a Catholic, and 2) an all-too-arch egghead type from St. Paul who might just get massacred by Ed Thye in the farm counties. The D.F.L. decided that folksy Governor Freeman, a lead-pipe cinch for reelection...
...conference, U.S., British and Russian delegates were already in their second week of talks on nuclear-test suspension, though progress was stalled by the clash between Soviet insistence on stopping tests right away and "forever" and U.S.-British insistence that a foul-proof inspection system must precede any long-term agreement to halt tests. To help the conference's slender chances of success, the U.S. and Britain had, as of Oct. 31, halted nuclear tests for a one-year trial period on condition that the Soviet Union do the same...
...excessive smoking." This was unheard of. The registrar harrumphed, refused to accept the certificate. That meant there had to be an inquest-before Coroner R. Ian Milne, a layman who happens to be an unreformed smoker, Cried Milne: "I would take issue with any doctor who used such a term as 'excessive' in a death certificate. [That] is to judge the habits of one's fellow men. That must be the province of the coroner." Coroner Milne's verdict: death from natural causes...
...market got another push from the short supply of stocks; mutual funds and other long-term investors have bought so much stock that comparatively small orders push prices up. When waves of profit-taking brought a dip, new buyers soon started prices up again, though at week's end the market had eased from the record high...