Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tuck all the way. With all 48 states accounted for, Gabrielson and Beck were locked solid 45 votes to 45. Alaska's one vote put Beck ahead. Then Gabrielson went into the lead with two votes each from the District of Columbia, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Before the final vote was announced, one Nebraska committeeman switched his vote to give Gabrielson a bare majority...
Then an El Paso police reporter named Walt Finley began nosing around Las Cruces on his day off, went back with a startling story. The football player had dim-wittedly agreed to stay in jail under what Happy called "voluntary arrest" because he had been told he would be charged with murder if he objected or tried to see a lawyer. But when Reporter Finley slipped into the jail and talked to Nuzum, he protested convincingly that he had nothing to do with Cricket's murder...
...hazardous work, a miner cannot afford the cost of sky-high life insurance. The U.M.W. fund, reported Miss Roche, paid out $5,500,000 since mid-1948 to nearly 32,000 survivors of miners who died or were killed (an average of $174 per beneficiary). Another $64 million went into disability and assistance grants, $30 million for the miners' $100-a-month pension program, and $5,000,000 for health and medical services...
...chiefs of staff first flew to Frankfurt, where they conferred with representatives of Luxembourg (military strength: two battalions) and Italy. Then they went to London, where brief staff talks with British, Norwegian and Danish military leaders were sandwiched between a reception at Buckingham Palace and an air review by 24 U.S. Superfortresses...
When Communist ex-Minister of the Interior Laszlo Rajk went to prison last June as an "imperialist agent" and Titoist-suspect (TIME, June 27), there were rumors that his pal, the police chief, would soon share his fate. Last week Tito's paper Borba (which has shown before that it has a good pipeline into Hungary) reported that Hangman Gabor had killed himself in a Budapest prison...