Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wasn't a losing season, but it might as well have been." Thus coach Bill McCurdy evaluated the 1959 cross country campaign, the worst in his long and successful reign. In dual and triangular meets, the varsity had a seemingly respectable 4-3 record, but the Crimson actually won only when a loss was inconceivable...
...presently organized, the group is not, Latham emphasized, a high-pressure type campaign committee for Kennedy. Members at this time include Republicans and non-Kennedy-for-President Democrats, as well as Kennedy supporters...
...Philippine standards, it turned out to be the most peaceable election ever; although during the six-week campaign 38 Filipinos had been killed and 131 wounded, only two killings were reported on election day. But it was also an election, noted Manila's Philippines Free Press, in which "the corruption of the people with their own money" reached "awesome" proportions. With the rich resources of government funds at their disposal, Garcia's Nacionalistas reportedly spent $4,500,000 buying votes in Cebu Province (pop. 1,324,880) alone...
Along with a bottomless campaign chest, Garcia & Co. had the advantage of divided opposition: unable to agree on a joint ticket, Vice President Diosdado Macapagal, Garcia-baiting boss of the Liberal Party, and Progressive Manuel Manahan, hailed by his followers as spiritual heir to the late great President Ramon Magsaysay, abandoned their threatened coalition against Garcia. The Nacionalistas did poorly in the cities. In Manila, brash, gun-toting Arsenio Lacson, one of Garcia's archenemies, won a third term as mayor by a 2-to-1 majority; in Cebu City, Sergio Osmena Jr., son of the Philippines' wartime...
...Armada, by Garrett Mattingly. A clear and perceptive account of Spain's great naval campaign against Elizabeth's England, and of the stormy political and religious climate in which it was fought...