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Waggonner, a former White Citizens' Council leader from the town of Plain Dealing (pop. 1,357), started the campaign as an overwhelming favorite. But Oilman Lyons closed the gap by identifying Waggonner with the national Democratic Party. Cried Lyons: "The national Democratic Party is 80% socialist and 1.000% anti-South. They are taking us down the road to disaster." The election of a Republican Congressman from Louisiana, Lyons argued, would "jar the Kennedy Administration to the marrow of its bones. If elected to Congress. I would stand steadfast and work unflinchingly against the onslaught of socialism...
...foreign talent that Moscow's Tchaikovsky Competition drew in its first year (1958), when it boosted Van Cliburn to world fame. With world wide competitions getting increasing attention, the U.S. needs an instrumental contest with truly international appeal-and the Mitropoulos Competition is an effort to fill the gap...
...Northeastern varsity basketball team last night closed a 14-point half-time gap to a bare four points but fell behind again, eventually losing to the visiting Crimson squad...
...Crimson scored the first eight points of the game, and it took the Huskies over seven minutes to make their first tally. They eventually closed the gap to 16-11, but Harvard then widened the margin again to 27-13, paced by Pete Kelley, who was brought from the bench to score eight points in the rally...
...turns. In the 600, he stayed behind McArdle and green of Manhattan, graciously allowing them to kill each other for the lead. On the final lap he began kicking, erased a 20-foot margin, and won at the wire. later, in the two-mile relay, Kirkland opened a wide gap with a 2:00.4 lead-off split...