Word: winners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khalil's rugged independence paid off. Last week, with most of the ballots counted, Khalil's Umma Party was winner of 75 seats to El Azhari's 45. But Khalil needs another twelve votes to muster a majority in the 173-man Parliament, and both sides were busy wooing adherents among the minor parties and independents. Said one cynical observer: "For the next few days, you won't be able to sleep around here for the clink of money...
Professor in Politics. Liberal Pearson, history professor turned politician, winner of a 1957 Nobel Peace Prize, makes no effort to match the Prime Minister's give-'em-hell speeches. In matter-of-fact tones, he maintains that the recession would have overtaken any government in power, calls for an immediate $400 million tax cut-rather than a slow-motion public-works plan-to pep up the economy...
...Probable winner of the election: the mildly socialist West Indies Federal Labor Party, which should win at least 26 of the 45 seats and organize the government. Probable Prime Minister: Oxford-educated Lawyer Sir Grantley Herbert Adams, 59, one of the pioneer federationists and founders of the F.L.P., now Premier of Barbados...
...Johns and shot a surprising par 72. "I'm a hot-weather golfer," drawled Beverly, "but thanks to this dandy underwear, I've had a very good winter." Right behind her, only a stroke off, plodded the broad-beamed champion herself-affable Patty Berg, 40, seven-time winner and still favorite despite a painful trick knee...
Coincidentally, By Love Possessed also features a rape case, and plenty of legal technicalities. But beneath the excitements and the pyrotechnics of the law, there lies, for Lawyer-Hero Arthur Winner, "that majestic calm of reason designed to curb all passions." On publication, critics almost unanimously praised the book-and some wildly overpraised. Now a small reaction has set in, led by Dwight Macdonald, who in Commentary denounced Cozzens as a tool of the "Middlebrow Counter-Revolution.'' With much justice, Critic Macdonald ridicules the involved Cozzens style. With far less justice, he maintains-in a dubious...