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Cashmere's nomination immediately ran into trouble, i.e., that peculiar New York political institution, the Liberal Party. Core of the Liberal Party is Dave Dubinsky's International Ladies' Garment Workers Union; around it cluster intellectuals like Adolf Berle and Reinhold Niebuhr. The Liberal Party fights Tammany, but on national and statewide issues usually lines up with the Democrats. When it seemed clear that Cashmore would be nominated, the Liberals balked. They nominated a stopgap candidate, Columbia University's Dr. George S. Counts. Party leaders admitted that they might shift to another candidate before election. What made...
...foundation has already created two new towns along its pioneer highway. Aragarças (pop. 2,000) has new houses for road workers, a school for 350 children, a 70-bed hospital, sawmill, machine shop and brick factory. Chavantina (pop. 300), a cluster of brick huts, lies even deeper in the Mato Grosso, on the banks of the Rio das Mortes (River of Deaths) and near the hunting grounds of the fierce Chavante Indians...
...spun into phrases and the phrases to be spun into entries. You must separate the gold from the copper coins." By Lesson Twelve, students are being coached in such dark mysteries as the use of the "Mystic Three." Says Shepherd: "Even Julius Caesar used a Mystic Three verb cluster when he uttered his famous words: 'I came, I saw, I conquered...
...unidentified object was over the Washington area. Then he told an airline pilot, C. S. Pierman of Capital Airlines, who was about to take off for Pittsburgh, to watch for mysterious objects. Pierman climbed to 6,000 ft. and headed northwest. Barnes & Co. saw a group of strange blips cluster around the blip made by Pierman's plane, and Pierman spotted a white light "like a falling star." It sped away, and its blip disappeared from Barnes's scope...
Mountaineering veterans of some of the toughest climbs of the Alps, the Rockies and the Himalayas are currently flocking to Peru, drawn by the country's cluster of virgin (i.e., unclimbed) peaks ranging up to 20,000 ft. or more. In recent months, two major expeditions have been preparing assaults on the spectacular snowcrest of Salcantay, 20,551 ft. above sea level. One, an American-French group, has been reconnoitering the peak in an airplane; the other, a Swedish-Italian group, has been warming up by scaling other Peruvian slopes...