Word: trail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next 30 have four votes and the eight most populous counties have six votes. The candidate who wins a county's popular vote plurality also wins all its unit votes; the candidate with the most unit votes wins the primary. Under such a system a candidate can trail in popular votes and be elected. In 1946, for instance, red-gallusty Gene Talmadge lost the popular vote to Opponent James V. Carmichael, 297,245 to 313,389, beat Carmichael in unit votes, 242 to 146, thereby won a fourth term as governor...
...Partly Full Dinner Pail. Old Campaigner Nikita Khrushchev addressed 14,000 constituents of his Moscow steel-mill district in Moscow's Luzhniki Sports Palace. "The Soviet people are a people of champions, a trail-blazing people," he proclaimed. "The trust of such a people is a great and lofty honor that must be repaid. I promise to make every effort to live up to the trust." Pointing with pride to Russia's peace-loving protestations, he viewed with alarm "the stubborn unwillingness of certain Western circles" to agree to a summit meeting at once. Khrushchev praised the "immense...
...between the U.S. and Europe is tipping in the U.S.'s favor. In the winter months the famed European soloists still keep coming to the U.S. But in spring and summer, U.S. performers by the hundreds-most of them native-born, some adopted-take off on a music trail that may lead not only to Europe's capitals but to the Belgian Congo and the rim of the Arctic Circle. This summer offers two special magnets for U.S. attractions: the Brussels World's Fair (highlights: the American Ballet Theater, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Louis Armstrong) and Italy...
...didn't think of anything else for 2½ months," she says. She went to see a friend on the staff of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, was sent down the hall to Architect Philip Johnson, then the M.M.A.'s director of architecture. There the trail to Mies began...
After Lamphere's escape from Iowa City, Dr. Chapman stayed on his trail. But even after publication of the Journal article, Lamphere managed to get in two luxurious weeks at Baltimore's famed Johns Hopkins Hospital before he moved on to Indiana and was recognized. State hospitals had previously refused to keep him because they are for residents, and he claimed to be a resident of New York. But last week Lamphere agreed in court to undergo psychiatric examination, was shipped off to the state hospital at Westville, Ind. Psychiatrists hope to keep Lamphere in the maximum-security...