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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gets dirty. In wet weather it is exercised on an outdoor run covered with clean, crushed rock; when the sun is out, it is allowed to romp on a carefully groomed lawn. Its pen has a radio to supply soothing music and a carpet of brown paper, not the usual shreds of newspaper, for newsprint might soil the poodle's coat...
...usual, vodka sales were banned on election day and, dressed in Sunday best, most voters went straight from Mass to the apartment houses, factories, country shops or town halls where dignified local polling officials kept potbellied stoves stoked against the biting cold. Parents came to vote with small children wrapped in sheepskin kozuchy. Nuns with stiff white headpieces stood in lines with mustachioed peasants and smartly uniformed army officers. One elderly woman arrived to vote with a goose on a leash...
Safe & Comfortable. After his usual two-day sojourn at the Ambassador last week, Ramfis climbed into a dark green Cadillac and rolled northwest along State Highway 45 to Fort Leavenworth, Kans. His driver stuck to a prescribed route, minding strict instructions to "watch the high bluffs [where a sniper might lurk] and proceed swiftly." Through the day Ramfis sat attentively with his 620 classmates at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College...
Businessmen were delighted with the victory for free enterprise. Taking defeat with his usual aplomb, Pepe declared: "I showed them how to run a country; now I'll show them how to oppose." First task for Oppositionist Figueres: patching up differences with maverick Rossi, who perhaps drained off enough votes to ensure Echandi's election. In the new Congress, Pepe will have 19 seats, to 19 for the two factions behind Echandi. Rossi, with five seats, holds the balance of power...
...With Jockey Willie Hartack beating out his usual rib-rattling tattoo (TIME, Feb. 10). Calumet Farm's Iron Liege sprinted home by half a length at Florida's Hialeah to win the $65,700 McLennan Handicap and Calumet stable's first major purse of the 1958 racing season...