Word: trails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were dined in Corvallis, Ore. (pop. 16,000) by local Democrats, who asked everyone to get up and introduce himself. One tired reporter arose and announced: "Peter Kumpa, Baltimore Sun, candidate for retirement." Like dozens of bleary-eyed colleagues, Reporter Kumpa, 30, was roughing it on the campaign trail. 1956 airborne style, and finding it rougher than ever...
Gradualism implies one other attribute, more perhaps of mind than of policy. It is one often overlooked by Northern Crusaders who want to ride off on a charger--whether black or white--and blaze a trail for The Cause of Integration. And this is that the North, too, has its racial problem. True, it is somewhat hidden behind residential segregation or unwritten custom, but it is just as real, and just as wrong. The problem becomes more apparent when one takes a look at the statistics of the very few Northern Negroes who are adequately prepared for college...
...lost track of his subject only once: during a blinding New Jersey rainstorm, he became detached from the official caravan of long black limousines and began to trail another file of long black limousines until he discovered that he was bringing up the rear of a funeral procession...
...price of a pound of quality coffee in U.S. grocery stores edged up last week past $1.15 - only 15? short of 1954's peak price and a fat 26? higher than 1955'$ low. This time around, the trail of cause and effect appeared to lead straight back to shrewd Manuel Mejia, czar of the Colombian Federation of Coffeegrowers...
Beef Candy. To create a new market for meat, Oregon Cattleman Ed Coles developed a chocolate-coated coconut candy bar containing 25% dehydrated ground beef. The meat lends a nutlike flavor to the high-protein Oregon Trail bar, which tastes like rich chocolate fudge. Coles hopes to market the confection...