Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Opinion. "If you want to change the rule," Clint Anderson chided his colleagues, "do it now." Bill Knowland, fearing that delays would leave the Senate with no rules to work under, claimed that the upper house might be "plunged into a jungle." Retorted Anderson: "The House [which adopts its rules at each new session] walked through this jungle yesterday and in 30 seconds emerged intact." But, argued New York's Irving Ives, "the point is whether the Senate shall have the power to act if a reasonable number of its members believe that action ... is necessary." Not so, said...
...James T. O'Connell, a business executive from Upper Montclair, N.J., as Under Secretary of Labor (at the same time that fellow New Jerseyite James P. Mitchell announced that he will continue as Secretary of Labor). O'Connell succeeds Presidential Speechwriter Arthur Larson, now director of the United States Information Agency...
...Wrong Man (Warner). When the true story of Manny Balestrero was printed in the newspapers a few years ago, it made a strange and haunting tale. On the afternoon of Jan. 13, 1953, Balestrero, an $85-a-week bass player at Manhattan's crusty, upper-crust Stork Club, went to the office of a Long Island insurance company to raise a small loan on his wife's policy. The next evening he was arrested and "positively identified" by two of the insurance company's employees as the man who months earlier had robbed the office at gunpoint...
...Hampshire resorts, Franconia's Cannon Mt. was classified as fair to good on the upper trails and excellent on the slope. Intervale, Laconia's Belknap Mts., Mt. Sunapee, and North Conway's Mt. Cranmore were all termed excellent...
...team's weakness, if it has any, is in the lower and the upper weights, while it shows considerable strength through the middle divisions...