Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DELHI, India, Oct. 27-A 10,000-man Red Chinese invasion force was reported driving down a jeep trail from Towang today in a possible effort to break through the eastern Himalayas into India's thickly populated plains of Assam...
...hear President Kennedy on the campaign trail, about the only thing that really counts is whether the next U.S. Congress will be even more lopsidedly Democratic than the last. In some ways, what Kennedy does not say is more significant than what he does...
...McKee, a tiny town in the Wilderness Trail country, Republican Senator Thruston Morton got out of a borrowed yellow Cadillac, mingled with tobacco-chewing men in bib overalls. It was beastly hot, and sweat dripped from Morton's face. He was gracious, but seemed much more reserved than Wyatt. The group moved inside the dilapidated courthouse. A trial was in session, but the judge ordered a recess so that Morton could speak. He was introduced by a local orator: "We're a workin' people, we're a God-fearin' people, we're a peace...
Missouri's cantankerous Democratic Representative Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, had taken umbrage at the way the Senate had been upping his antes on a supplemental appropriations bill. Democratic leaders were desperate by this time. President Kennedy, off on the campaign trail, pleaded with Cannon by telephone; no dice. Democratic Whip Hale Boggs, emerging from a meeting, growled: "I feel like punching somebody in the nose." That bill was stymied, but Cannon was not through. When the final appropriations bill came to the House floor late last
...campaign trail, the ex-President looked and sounded like the old Quadros; so sure was he of victory that he introduced himself at rallies as "your governor." But the erratic, wild-haired Quadros, who says that "occult forces" drove him from the presidency, did not wow the voters as he had before. Favoring a predictable politician over the unpredictable one, they gave the lead to a somewhat shopworn old figure named Adhemar de Barros, whose scandal-tainted state administration was turned out by Quadros eight years ago. A Quadros aide passed word that the ex-President was again considering...