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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrat, was satisfied to say that he may not take any par in any political convention in 1956. Texas' Governor Shivers, elected to three terms as a Democrat, answered with a loaded question: "Who's Mitchell?" Louisiana's Governor Kennon was hardly contrite: "Three hundred thousand Louisiana Democrats backed up my stand on Eisenhower. I think the feeling in Louisiana is that the national Democratic Party will control the national Government when the party returns to the principles of Jefferson. If it adopts another anti-Jeffersonian platform, I wouldn't be surprised to see those...
Last year 4,900 of 7,000 steel workers voted for the Communist-led C.G.I.L. union; last week more than a thousand of them deserted the Communist cause and switched their votes to give the anti-Communist C.I.S.L. a majority. After the Fiat defeat, the Communists blamed their troubles on U.S. withholding of offshore procurement orders. Last week, defeated again, they were silent. "I wonder what the propaganda boys will now invent to explain away and justify this new clamorous defeat." crowed C.I.S.L. General Secretary Giulio Pastore...
There are checks and stripes and flowery prints, and even polka-dot underwear. And 1955's summer clothes are flexible, as the result of a continuing boom in "separates." There are a thousand different kinds of blouses that look as well with a skirt at a dinner party as with Bermuda shorts at a picnic. In California, bathing-suit makers Cole and Rose Marie Reid have gone so far as to put out "evening convertibles"-swimsuits that can be made into evening dresses by adding fluffy tulle skirts. Price...
...Egypt's ex-King Farouk, interviewed by Milan's weekly Tempo, was still looking like the fat of the land, but disclosed that he no longer lives off it. Moaned he: "I lived in wonderful palaces with a thousand-and-one-night atmosphere. But I was never personally rich . . . The revolutionists have seized my private property ... I left Alexandria with the change I had in my pocket." How much change? "A faithful secretary at the last moment slipped ?600 sterling into my pocket." On such a pittance, asked his interviewer, how had Farouk managed to live so high...
...monument to the distinguished persecutor of Salem. In a curious reversal of roles, however, the General Court seemingly upheld civil liberties by refusing funds for the enterprise. Lacking any other resource, the crafty trustees held a series of lotteries and, in 1794, hit the jackpot, winning their own ten thousand dollar prize on a redeemed ticket. After this victory of the righteous, there was enought money to build Holworthy as well as Stoughton. In 1805, new Stoughton appeared as a facsimile of Hollis, a mere shadow, robbed even of its distinctive coat of arms...