Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pausing in San Francisco after a one-day speaking trip and a huddle with northern California's Democratic leaders, Front Runner John Kennedy all but took himself out of next June's California primary, tempting though the 81 delegate votes were. "Every Democrat with whom I've discussed it in California in the last twelve months has been reluctant to have a serious interparty split," said Kennedy. And, he admitted sadly, he could find "no Democrat" in California who thought he should risk a primary fight against Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown...
...diplomacy, the world's statesmen are necessarily accompanied by swarms of newsmen, to the extent that in their very number they have come to pose a perplexing problem. Where only three correspondents, one from each U.S. wire service, went along with Vice President Richard Nixon on his 1953 trip to Australia and Asia, last spring more than 80 followed him to Russia, eliciting from the Vice President the complaint that he could not easily hold background briefings, a Nixon practice, for so large a number. And when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev toured the U.S. this fall, so many correspondents...
...fell on evil times. "A Japanese father never explains business affairs to the family," Mabe recalls, "but I knew something terrible had happened. My father was bankrupt and humiliated." His father tried first being a barber, then finally decided to move to Brazil. The family made the 50-day trip in steerage, and father became a contract laborer on a Sao Paulo coffee plantation...
John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). A trip to Mysore, India, for a Wild Elephant Roundup...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Suicide Run to Murmansk, the most dangerous convoy trip of World War II, is revisited on film by some men who were there when the going was tough. Guests include former Foreign Correspondent Walter Kerr; David Sinclair, a British sea captain; Lord Beaverbrook: and a U.S. Navy survivor, Charles M. Ulrich...