Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevada: Mossback Republican George W. Malone, 68, lost his third-term race to middle-of-the-road Democrat Howard W. Cannon, 46, Las Vegas city attorney for ten years, less on political grounds than because Las Vegans, who recently surpassed Reno in population, were peeved because all three Nevadans in Congress were from Reno...
Elsewhere, Democrats nibbled away at isolated Republican districts to add to the gains they started with last month's Maine election. In New York they picked up a seat apiece in the normal Republican strongholds of Buffalo and Schenectady; in Kentucky's Third District (Louisville) State Legislator Frank W. Burke, 38, defeated John M. Robsion, who went to Washington six years ago on Dwight Eisenhower's coattails...
Rockefeller, third generation of the famous family that moved from organized capitalism to organized philanthropy to organized public service, won with a dramatic new blend of personal dynamism and political skill. He concentrated unerringly on state issues, e.g., stop loss of industry from high-tax New York; crack down on organized crime; preserve rent controls, the 15? subway fare; find new-solutions for commuter problems. He appealed to independents, even edged slightly away from Vice President Nixon when Nixon visited New York. He successfully depicted Democrat Harriman as a creature of Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio. But above...
...later on the third night, Lady Beatty spatted with Frankie and drove off in a Huff.* After two days, during which Frankie sulked and even refused an invitation to a ball for Princess Margaret, Lady Beatty decided to save face-her own face, which in times of emotional stress has a tendency to break out in an unbecoming rash. Off to Zurich she flew to see her psychiatrist. Said she about Frankie: "I don't want to see him ever again...
There was a third and worse possibility: meningococci, which could kill Mary within an hour or two. Dr. Burkhardt dared not delay either treatment or hospitalization. He ordered one of the clinic's two radio-equipped sedans rigged with an infusion bottle hung from the coat hook and bundled Mary into the car. A Navajo staff member drove the 90 miles (much of it over spring-breaking dirt roads) to Fort Defiance, while Burkhardt squatted by the patient, gave her a continuous intravenous infusion of sulfadiazine...