Word: contestable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Westerner. To make the keynote speech, the committee picked Idaho's ever smiling Senator Frank Church.* who is 35 but looks mid-twentyish. Church attracted national attention at 16. when he won an American Legion oratorical contest. In 1956 he orated himself into the Senate, where his most obvious dis tinction is to be that body's youngest member. Legend has it that an old lady visiting the Capitol once said to him: "I understand that you page boys are often mistaken for Senator Church...
Rocky's re-entry into the presidential contest came a little late. Just one day before, Richard Nixon won Tennessee's 28-vote delegation, and with it an unofficial total of 686 committed votes-enough to guarantee him the nomination...
...just running for fun," Robert C. Johnson. 48, explained to friends who asked him why he got into a hopeless election contest. On a dare, Johnson, a political unknown, operator of a small Jacksonville clothing factory specializing in policeman and fireman uniforms, had entered Florida's Democratic primary as a candidate for the unpaid but influential party post of national committeeman...
Gologne (June 10-19). The most ambitious of contemporary music festivals offers 16 world premieres by such avant-garde composers as Mauricio Kagel, Herbert Eimert, Pierre Boulez, Wolfgang Fortner, Karl Blomdahl and Karl-heinz Stockhausen, whose Contest Between Electronic Sound and Instruments is expected to be the festival's most impressive explosion of sound...
...told not to publish it." Said he last week: "Mr. Adlai Stevenson is walking slowly in the path of truth. In his first denial he seemed unaware of my visit to him and of the conversations we had. Now he recognizes having met me. I do not contest the right of Mr. Stevenson, like any politician, to change his mind. Today Mr. Stevenson regrets his declarations to me. I don't regret having reported them...