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Senator Jennings Randolph, a Democrat, defeated Governor C. H. Underwood by more than 100,000 votes; Kennedy took advantage of economic unrest and easily won this predominantly Protestant Industrial state...
Wisconsin (12): Farm unrest and massive switch of Ike-liking Catholics (32% of-population) will carry for Kennedy, who personally pumped the hands of tens of thousands during last spring's primary. KENNEDY...
...Welsh unrest during the 19th century provides the background for Cordell's romance novels, which relate the doings and stewings of a wild country clan called the Mortymers. The present book, sequel to The Rape of the Fair Country, moves the Mortymers to the coal-mining and farming town of Carmarthen in time for the Rebecca riots of 1839-44. Strapping young Jethro, the book's hero, joins the night-riding Rebeccas-angry farmers who black their faces and wear their wives' nightgowns to raid the hated tollgates, which devour profits on produce taken to market...
...Harvard, the quitting of halfbacks John Damis and John Shipman may or may not have been the first signs of a growing unrest. But when a team with such obviously fine material begins to lose and look bad in the process, something is very, very wrong...
...meeting opened against a background of Castro-incited unrest, as 400 raging demonstrators tried futilely to charge the hall. Next day the ranking critic of the U.S., Brazilian Delegation Chief Augusto Frederico Schmidt, led off by charging that the Eisenhower plan-which is devoted to such social objectives as low-cost housing, improved education, land reform-is not enough. Schmidt, Brazil's gruff businessman-poet, is the man who devised Brazil's Operation Pan American, a much more grandiose idea. Said he: "We cannot eliminate the old enemies of this hemisphere with temporary tactics." Was $500 million...