Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During his West Coast campaign trip (TIME, Oct. 22) Stevenson again struck for an end to U.S. H-bomb tests. Some what to his surprise, the proposal received enthusiastic applause. Thus encouraged, Stevenson's professionally intellectual, politically amateurish advisers pushed their advantage, urging him to make the H-bomb his top campaign issue. Arguing against them in a top-level Chicago conference was Campaign Manager Jim Finnegan, a tough-minded political pro. Finnegan finally gave in on the ground that the H-bomb was "a way of talking about peace"-and peace was an issue that Finnegan was distressed...
Pausing in Denver for his brief talk to 5.000 ranged at the airport to meet him, the President reported "one thing on this trip has impressed me mightily. I am convinced America ... is happier today than it was four years ago." So too last week was Candidate Dwight Eisenhower...
Swinging east, then south across the land last week in the waning warmness of Indian summer, Richard Nixon generated a waxing optimism. Alerted before his trip against meager crowds, the Vice President found audiences as fat in doubtful Buffalo as in secure Fort Wayne, Ind. Warned against hoots and hecklers, he heard in 9,000 miles three small choruses of boos. Of these, one was an impartial impoliteness that Yale undergrads had also extended to Adlai Stevenson (TIME...
Even in the heat of a political campaign, most Californians agree, U.S. Senator Thomas Henry Kuchel (rhymes with treacle) is a nice guy. Affable, earnest, courteous-Tommy Kuchel is all of those and more. Last week the principal reason for Dwight Eisenhower's trip to Los Angeles was.to lend a needed helping hand to Kuchel's re-election campaign. Yet, after Ike landed, Nice Guy Kuchel was so nice that he let another Republican, ebullient, shoulder-thumping Governor Goodwin J. Knight, elbow him out of the limelight...
...their shoulders through the streets. In Trieste she was hailed as the "greatest Norma in history." But Maria decided that she was miserable. "I hated singing," she says. "I was terribly in love. It took me away from my husband." A shipboard companion remembers her on a trip to Latin America...