Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyed Detective Brown watched lest Kennedy set up an organization to slip into his valise any of California's convention votes. Reason: "Pat" Brown himself has developed high ambitions about the 1960 convention, has announced as a favorite son and needs control of California's delegation to keep his leverage...
Scare the Guests. As the bold Brown strategists see things, Brown must, as a minimum, keep the Golden State's massive delegation in hand until the right candidate comes along, or until Brown can dicker for the vice-presidential nomination. But when they let their dreams balloon, they note that 1) the Democratic convention will be in Los Angeles, Brown's front yard, 2) the Democratic convention is threatened by deadlock. So why not California's Pat Brown for President? Brown has agreed that he would accept a draft...
...Really Busy on Sunday." "Jewish farmers are said to do as well as most farmers in the region. Still, more meat and eggs are badly needed in Birobidzhan. Even city dwellers keep chickens. At the market on Friday, as a dozen peasants sell garlic, Indian nuts, onions and a few eggs, the visitor is told that it is really busy on Sunday...
...existence of several major parties in Philippine politics. Besides Macapagal's Liberal Party, there is the Progressive Party, headed by Manny Manahan, another of the bright young men of the Magsaysay era. Somehow, Manahan and Macapagal could never agree to combine forces, and Old Pol Garcia maneuvered to keep them apart...
...fifty dollar prize for books, no single volume of which may cost over ten cents, would the most fitting memorial for Courtney Courtney, who graduated at the very bottom of a class of 863 back in 1935. Courtney met his tragic end last May, when he failed to keep his mouth closed during a tropical thunderstorm...