Word: adlai
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...walked to the end of the board like a diver. He stood on his toes like a diver. He flexed his muscles and took a deep breath like a diver. But Adlai Stevenson finally decided not to take the political plunge. Last week he announced that he would continue as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations rather than run next year for U.S. Senator from Illinois...
...suggestion that he try for the Senate had come from Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard J. Daley. In bad need of a big-name Democrat to contest Incumbent Republican Everett Dirksen, Daley had talked with the White House, said that he wanted to make the offer to Adlai. Getting no particular presidential objection, he telephoned Stevenson, put the question directly...
Many of Stevenson's closest associates, including his eldest son, Adlai Jr., advised him against running against Dirksen next year. But Adlai remained fascinated by the notion. Last fortnight he journeyed to Washington, discussed the matter with Kennedy. The President's reaction was such that Stevenson emerged from the White House to announce publicly that he was "considering" the Senate contest. In Chicago, Dick Daley understandably viewed this as a formal acceptance. He publicly predicted that Stevenson would trounce Dirksen by at least 500,000 votes...
...forcefully reminded the U.N. of the 200 million people who are seldom mentioned in debates on colonialism: the subjects of Communist imperialism. The West has liberated over 800 million dependent people since 1945. By contrast, declared the U.S.'s Adlai Stevenson in an eleven-page memo to delegates, the Communist empire is: 1) "the largest colonial empire which has ever existed in all history,''*2) "the only imperial system which is not liquidating itself but is still trying energetically to expand in all directions," 3) "one of the most cruel and oppressive ever devised." Warned Stevenson: "Because...
Last week Kennedy put U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson aboard a presidential jet and sent him winging to Trinidad to enlist the support of Argentina's pivotal President Arturo Frondizi for the Colombian plan. But after a two-hour, twenty-minute dead-of-night talk with Stevenson, Frondizi would only agree vaguely to "consider" an OAS foreign ministers' conference...