Word: race
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Salt Lake City. Left for dead last November when he ran third in the three-man race for the U.S. Senate, Dinosaurian Sometime Republican J. (for Joseph) Bracken Lee, 60, twice Utah's Governor and six times Salt Lake City's mayor, roared back to political life by blasting corruption, unions, the U.N., federal taxes and foreign aid, defeated Democratic State Senator Bruce Jenkins, 32. To Jenkins' warnings that Salt Lake City would shrivel under the leadership of a man behind the times, the voters sized up Maverick Lee's established reputation for honesty and economy...
...slowest of the Big Three to enter the small-car race made a strong bid last week to catch up in a hurry. Into production went Chrysler Corp.'s compact Valiant station wagon, well ahead of Ford, which will not have a station wagon on the market until next spring, and Corvair, lagging far behind, which will not have one until fall...
...will be an all-or-nothing situation this morning when the varsity soccer squad meets Brown at 11 in Providence. The Ivy League race has become a two-defeats-and-out contest, and the Crimson (3-1-0) and Brown (3-1-1) will be fighting for survival...
...Crimson has taken 42 of the 58 games in the series; Brown has won 14, and two have been tied. Today, the varsity will be doubly determined, since two matters are at stake. In the first place, the Crimson must beat Brown to stay in the Ivy League race. A more galling consideration is the longtime Bruin domination. This, in the eyes of Harvard followers, has gone just about far enough...
...popular conception that he was a very funny man. After his famous "Jumping Frog" story, he was "made." But humor is not the only trade mark of Twain. A genuine and deep bitterness, sometimes strung out in novel-sized (often two volume novel-sized) indictments of the human race, is equally characteristic...