Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heading eastward on a business trip, Illinois' Republican Governor William G. Stratton decided to add another stop to his itinerary under the heading of special business. Stratton phoned New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, an old friend from service in the 80th Congress, asked Javits to arrange a quiet meeting in his Manhattan apartment. There Illinois' Stratton, who would like to be Vice President of the U.S., chatted secretly for two hours with New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who made a special trip down from Albany...
Halleck was the only man with a chance to oust Martin. He had the argument of experience (majority leader while Martin was Speaker in the 80th and 83rd Congresses). And his voting record oscillated enough to please both conservatives and liberals (isolationist until Pearl Harbor, strong backing for the war effort afterwards; firm opposition to Administration-backed social welfare measures until 1953, warm support of very similar measures afterwards...
...life-giving powers of devotion to piety and duty (though there were longer-lived Popes) than Pius XII. Though he had been severely ill several times, and was eventually found to have a hiatus hernia (TIME, Dec. 27, 1954), he functioned with full efficiency well beyond his 80th birthday and until the strokes that swiftly killed him (see RELIGION...
Radcliffe's 80th academic year began yesterday at the college's Formal Opening exercises in the Congregational-Presbyterian Church. Seniors, wearing their caps and grows for the first time, stopped traffic on Mason St. as they led the academic procession from the Radcliffe Yard into the church...
...rapturous cheers of 1,500 well-wishers from 62 countries, ever-beaming Ideologist Frank Buchman, founder of the Moral Re-Armament movement, celebrated his 80th birthday by presiding over the gathering of his clan at M.R.A.'s Mackinac Island (Mich.) summer training center. Between speeches of praise from devotees, Buchman pored over laudatory messages from (among others) West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, President Carlos Garcia of the Philippines, and 20 U.S. Senators...