Word: acheson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Again some reflection might have saved Mr. Jago from the inanity he wrote on the expression 'being present at the creation.' A reader endowed with some intelligence would have been saved the embarrassing illiteracy he exhibited. The reference was, of course, to Dean Acheson's book: Present at the Creation. As I explicitly stated to the interviewer, one felt in China that one was literally present at the creation of a new society and more presently than Acheson had in mind when that "Commissar of the Cold War"--in Ronald Steel's happy phrase--described, under that title, his role...
...President and Mrs. Nixon gave a white-tie dinner for 100 in the State Dining Room of the White House. The guests of honor were the Digest's formidable founders and cochairmen, DeWitt Wallace and his wife Lila, both 82. Wallace, son of a Presbyterian minister, married Lila Acheson some months before publication of the first issue, which they launched with $1,800. Now, 50 years later, DeWitt and Lila Wallace are probably still the most unforgettable characters either of them has ever...
...late Dean Acheson, an old cold warrior, disdained summitry; he found "the experience nerve-racking and the results unsatisfactory." Since Nixon is now concerned more with what Washington's foreign affairs experts call "atmospherics" than with substance, he stands a good chance to do better than Acheson might have predicted...
...American right thereupon proclaimed that at last they had proof that Acheson was the Communist dupe they had said he was. Under attack as never before, Acheson offered to resign, but Truman, who vastly admired him, pluckily backed him up. "I suppose an element of pride entered into this," Acheson later explained. "I knew this question was going to be asked. And I knew the press was going to believe I'd run. And I just said, 'I'm not going to run. I'm going to let you have it right...
Died. Dean Acheson, 78, Secretary of State from 1949 to 1953 (see THE NATION...