Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proctors have a system worked out pretty well. They have shifty eyeballs and suspicious natures. They have red lines on the blue books so you cannot pre-write an exam. They have attendance slips and, it is rumored, handwriting experts. They have alternate seats and alternate rows. They even have mild mannered young men who considerately watch you when you go to the lavatory...
Adlai over Estes. Neither Adlai Stevenson nor Estes Kefauver had entered his name on the Democratic ballot in Oregon's presidential primary-but both campaigned for a write-in vote that would give the winner the 16-vote convention delegation. Kefauver returned to Oregon on the day before the primary for a whirlwind handshaking tour down the Willamette Valley. He was too late with too little: Stevenson had already covered more ground, drawn bigger crowds, and won more votes. For a write-in, Oregon's response was remarkable, with about 130,000 Democrats naming a candidate. Result: Stevenson...
...Dick. On the Republican ballot Dwight Eisenhower got a whopping vote of nearly 200,000-far more than Stevenson and Kefauver combined. About 35,000 Republicans also took the trouble to write in Richard Nixon's name for Vice President, although there was no campaign for Nixon. Eisenhower's name was the only one on the presidential ballot for either party. But even with allowances made for that advantage, the primary indicated strong support in Oregon for Ike and Dick...
...jungly world of music, there is a sort of composers' elite, whose members are deeply respected but relatively obscure. They are the composers who more often than not will be "discovered" by the public after they die, as was Bela Bartok. They get few performances because a) they write few works, b) they are constitutionally unsuited to the rigors of promoting performances, c) their music sounds forbiddingly difficult, and is twice as difficult to play. A member of this elite in good standing is Manhattan's Elliott Cook Carter,* who, at 47, is just coming into...
...down for every one accepted, and the flunk-out rate last year was less than two percent. If they just learn to plan on a long-range basis, they'll do all right. It's at the beginning of the year, when the professor says 'read these books, and write these papers, and take these exams, and good luck'--it's then that the student may feel swamped...