Word: texan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...likely to ease the strain on many congressional hearts-including the majority leader's. Passed by the House in the final hours of the last session and lying there ready to tear the Senate apart is a bill to exempt natural-gas producers from fed eral regulation. Texan Johnson and Demo crats from other gas-producing states are hot for the bill; big-city Democrats, e.g., Illinois' Paul Douglas and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, are dead set against it (they want federal controls to hold prices down). Republicans are also divided on the issue...
...American trackmen teamed up with their New Zealand rivals in Auckland to set a spate of records. Californian Parry O'Brien put the shot 58 ft. 4 in., and heaved the discus 159 ft. 3 in., for New Zealand marks. Helped by a following wind, Texan Bobby Morrow ran off a world-record-tying loo-yd. dash (09.3 sec.). New Zealander Murray Halberg also contributed a local record with an impressive 4:02.2 mile ¶Proving just how far professional football had progressed as a crowd pleaser, President Jack Mara of the New York Giants calmly turned down...
Minnesota's left-of-center U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey, however, labeled it "twelve hits and one strike-out." The strikeout: Johnson's proposal on natural gas. Texan Johnson and Democrats from other gas-producing states want natural gas to flow free of federal price controls, while Democrats of Minnesotan Humphrey's stripe want tight control from Washington to hold prices down. Majority Leader Johnson's point on gas might in 1956 lead to a congressional fight demonstrating that not all Democratic hearts are in the same place. As for the rest of the program, the Democratic...
...retrace his P.W. characters' lives, Novelist Klaas uses the familiar time-machine or flashback technique. Wyoming Schoolteacher Fritz Heine is a home-loving navigator who has never really navigated; Bombardier Robert Montgomery (pleasantly plagued by his cinemactor name) is a Texan who winds up gladly admitting that a hot pilot known only as Thunderbird. "a guy with seven Air Medals, two D.F.C.s and a D.S.C., is no ordinary nigger." The book's only homegrown villain, Colonel Condon, was booted from West Point after his third year for cheating on a French exam, now nobly carries on by bartering...
...Yellow Rose of Texas (Mitch Miller orchestra and chorus; Columbia). With a rat-a-tat-tat of snare drums and a fifelike tweedle, the Texan (presumably) chorus chants about the girl back home. The tune, which comes from the Civil War, is so appealing that it has risen to No. 3 bestseller in a few weeks. Perhaps march tempos will replace the rock-'n-roll fashion...