Word: veteran
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Adlai Stevenson's float through the air pointed up the serious problems involved in negotiating such political acrobatics. His strongest support in Florida's primary came largely from the violently segregationist Third Congressional District in the northwest (Tallahassee). There, Stevenson's supporters, including veteran (eight terms) U.S. Representative Robert L. F. ("Daddy") Sikes, campaigned hard for their candidate as a man the South can trust on the race issue. The locals called in Mississippi's Political Strategist Sam Wilhite, who was a key manager in U.S. Senator James Oliver Eastland's campaign, to help Stevenson...
Julia Meade is a leading moneymaker among the girls, even topping Veteran Betty Furness, who this week begins her seventh TV year for Westinghouse. She is also seen by the most people-an estimated 65 million a week-and she appears on all three networks, plugging Lincolns for CBS's Ed Sullivan Show, Hudnut hair products for NBC's Your Hit Parade, and LIFE on ABC's John Daly news show. Like most of her rivals, Julia started out as an actress. Born in Boston, she was encouraged by her mother, Caroline Meade-who once trouped with...
...Named veteran Foreign Service Officer Julius C. Holmes, currently minister to Tangier, to examine "means to extend NATO cooperation in nonmilitary fields." This means speeding the conversion of NATO from a narrow military pact into the broader politico-economic alliance that Secretary Dulles has been hinting...
...convoy drew fire, but when the troops searched the hilltop whence the bullets came, no one was there except some Moslem farmers scything their grain as though nothing had happened. On the way back a farmhouse could be seen burning brightly. "IndoChina was nothing compared to this," said the veteran commander...
Maki's men were still picking their way back to Katmandu when news of their success drifted back to New Delhi. There, veteran climbers were frankly envious and just a little sad to see another peak conquered. Said Ram Rahul, climbing companion of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Douglas: "The big conquests are all but over. Before we know it. American Express will be running tourists up to the top of every Himalayan peak just to have a look...