Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between potshots at each other, the Democratic Advisory Council's 31 members found time during their long weekend in Manhattan to fire off a formal 22-point salvo at the Eisenhower Administration. "The Republican Party is unworthy to continue to exercise the power of national government," preambles the D.A.C.'s pile of campaign planks. It lays down a hard line against President Eisenhower's personal peace campaign ("Good-will tours are an inadequate substitute for solid policies"), attacks Administration defense policy ("The Republicans believe money to be more important than military security"), calls for a full-speed...
Bewitching Hour. That weekend did it. On Sunday afternoon Coach Dietzel flew to Natchez, cooled his heels for eight hours waiting for Perry Lee to return from Mississippi. But Schoolboy Perry Lee, closely convoyed by Coach Vaught, was heading for Room 1137 of the King Edward Hotel in Jackson, where Mayor Watkins and Perry Lee's father were waiting. There, at 12:05 amon the morning of Dec. 7, Perry Lee signed his "letter of intent" to play for Mississippi...
KENNETH GRAHAME, by Peter Green. A fascinating biography of the chronically ill and neurotic secretary of the Bank of England whose weekend writing produced at least one children's classic. The Wind in the Willows...
...Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players will present The Gondoliers this spring, with performances scheduled for the last weekend in April and the first weekend in May. A small orchestra may play for the production...
...other speakers at the weekend conference were Lt.Gen. James M. Gavin(ret.), and James F. Crow, professor of Medical Genetics at the University of Wisconsin. The harmful radiation effects of nuclear testing, Crow stated, are not negligible, but are sufficiently distributed over the earth so that testing, if politically necessary, can be continued...