Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Organizing a weekend "gypsy tour" to the tiny California mining town of Angels Camp (pop. 1,163), the Northern California chapter of the American Motorcycle Association won eager support from the Angels Camp Lions Club and police. The Lions agreed to sponsor A.M.A. races, borrowed $1,000 from the bank to pay advance costs. The police department increased its force from two officers to eight after warnings that motorcycle hoodlums sometimes dog the A.M.A. riders, sometimes get violent. (Ten years ago they almost wrecked nearby Hollister, Calif, during a three-day beer and battle orgy.) One day last week...
...found Republican solidarity was partly the result of White House pressure, but mostly the work of House Republican Leader Joe Martin. At Martin's request, Pentagon experts worked over the weekend on the $2.5 billion defense reduction proposed by the House Appropriations Committee. They came back with $308 million (later changed to $313 million) in restorations that they considered absolutely essential to the armed forces. Martin presented the list to the 30-member House Republican Policy Committee, laid the facts on the line in cold political terms. Said he: "If we are going to the voters as a party...
...course," John shattered the quiet. "If you look closely, you'll notice the heavier liquid has settled to the bottom since the weekend, and the olive is floating just...
Unofficial sources estimated nearly 100 dead or wounded from the bitter weekend strife between partisans of feuding candidates in the presidential elections scheduled for June...
...coach Harvey Love said, it was a rough weekend for Harvard crew. The varsity and JV heavyweights did not even qualify for the finals of the Sprints at Princeton, the Crimson lights again lost to Princeton by two seats at Washington, and to add the final touch, the JV lights lost to Navy by six inches...