Word: val
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...furious. Eisenhower clubs had been organized in all but half a dozen of South Dakota's 68 counties, and a first-string squad was coming in to speak for Ike. Among them were Senators Jim Duff of Pennsylvania and Fred Seaton of Nebraska, Governors Dan Thornton of Colorado, Val Peterson of Nebraska and Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, Representatives Walter Judd of Minnesota and Clifford Hope of Kansas. The Ike big guns would fire their heaviest volleys after Taft left the state this week...
...perpetrator of the universal love-your-lover-day, might have found it was more trouble than it was worth as far as he was concerned, too. Under Emperor Claudius in the third century A.D., young men in the army were forbidden to marry since it sapped their strength. St. Val began marrying couples in secret, for which Claudius had him whipped and imprisoned. That's when the Saint began sending cards to his friends on every anniversary of his imprisonment...
...Harvard Playwright's Group today announced the election of officers for the current year. Elected to the posts of Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer respectively were Ray Fitch '52, Val Vigllelmo 1G, and Don Leavitt...
...France, where arsenic has been a popular eliminator since the days of the famed Marquise de Brinvilliers,* this lack of precision troubled Henri Griffon, toxicology specialist for the Paris prefecture of police. He discussed the problem with his old friend, Captain Jean Barbaud, physicist and fellow graduate of the Val de Grâce military hospital. Together they worked out an answer. They brought the hair from a known arsenic victim to "Zoé," the atomic pile at Châtillon. For eight days they bombarded the hair in the pile's neutron flux. Then, when the elements...
Other potential Ike men can already be spotted. In Massachusetts, both Senators Lodge and Saltonstall are ready; so is Congressman Christian Herter. There is Nebraska's Governor Val Peterson, Arkansas' State Chairman Orso Cobb. In Texas, there is Jack Porter, oilman-turned-politician, who was the G.O.P.'s candidate for the Senate in 1948. In Los Angeles, a group of Stassen supporters headed by Lawyer David Saunders are talking Ike, but a California politician explained: "We're lying in the weeds, waiting for the right opportunity to spring. The politicians' hands are tied...