Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press conference to announce that he would have to cancel out the rest of his Minne sota schedule, return to Washington and vote on the farm bill. By that time Adlai Stevenson was on his way back to Chicago, rubbing his hands about Minnesota and preparing a speech for weekend delivery in Detroit...
...owned a Cadillac he did not like to drive. His great pleasure, it seemed, was to stop strangers in the streets, in buses, in soda fountains, where he would talk understandingly about their problems without letting on that he was a Congressman. He took no vacations outside of a weekend or two in Montreal, where he liked to walk around the older parts of town chatting with janitors. Congressman Lane liked everybody-although he was no backslapper, no enthusiastic pal. "The only person I recall him not liking," a friend said, "was Vito Marcantonio, and he would even chat with...
...After a weekend spent with his folks in Zebulon, N.C.. Margaret Truman, 32, returned to Manhattan with 43-year-old E. Clifton Daniel Jr., to be met by newsmen insistent for word of romance from them. Grinning, but ducking the big question, they taxied away together. Half an hour later, in a hastily called press conference in Independence, Mo., Papa Harry Truman gave out the happy word that Margaret was engaged to marry "Cliff" Daniel, onetime London and Moscow cor respondent and now assistant foreign editor of The New York Times. Papa Harry not only gave them his blessing...
...enough to keep up with a population growth of 3% yearly and a standard of living that grows much faster. With every new production climb will come new demands for shorter hours, more leisure time. Once automation hits its full stride, the 30-hour week and the three-day weekend will not be far behind...
Sportsmen will find New England ski slopes in exceptional condition this weekend. Most resort areas will be in good-to-excellent shape with North Conway, Franconia, and Peterborough reporting optimum conditions on all slopes...