Word: winningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Many Capitol Hill Democrats, led by Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright, want to list the IMF money in the 1960 budget, which would tilt it heavily out of balance. In predicting a $4.2 billion deficit in 1960, the joint committee report assumed that Fulbright & Fellows would win the argument. Last fortnight the Senate voted 58 to 25 to give Fulbright his way. But last week the House voted 86 to 36 to go along with Ike. That left the decision up to a Senate-House conference committee to settle after the spring recess...
...most Nevada gambling houses, only a few coins tumble down. A bell rings, the box lights up, and a sharp-eyed change girl arrives at the machine, sometimes with an assortment of mechanic types who check to see that there has been no ham-handed tampering. If the win looks legitimate, the change girl pays the big money...
...outside world. Since then, though Radio Peking has on occasion quoted the Dalai Lama in dutiful denunciation of the American imperialists, he has in fact shown a captive's ability subtly to defy authority. The old saying is still true: "To hold Tibet firmly, the conqueror must win the Potala's top floor...
First in the South. In Northern Rhodesia, late election results showed that Welensky's United Federal Party finished out front but failed to win a clear majority. Four out of 20 seats on the legislative council went to the new Central African Party, headed by Garfield Todd, whose liberal racial views cost him the Southern Rhodesian premiership...
...most successful businesswomen. Sally Victor, 54, is not.only the biggest fashion hatmaker (more than $500,000 a year) in the multimillion-dollar millinery business (1958 sales: $300 million), but she is a trend setter (along with such designers as Mr. John and Lilly Dache), the only milliner to win the Coty award, fashion world "Oscar." Her $55-to-$90 creations (up to $1,000 with fur or jewelry) soon reappear in pirated cheaper models; many a U.S. housewife will wear a Sally Victor design this Easter without knowing it. But her custom hats go first to such luminaries as Queen...