Word: adlai
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...United Nations, U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson labored to explain to the world what was already self-evident: that the U.S. considered Castro a clear threat to hemisphere security and encouraged the Cuban exiles in their attempt to bring him down. Speaking with unusual intensity, Stevenson sought to accent the positive, reassuring Latin America in particular that the U.S. had no intention of reviving Yankee imperialism, but was acting in the interests of freedom after extreme, prolonged, unceasing provocation. He ridiculed the shrill contention of Raül Roa, Castro's liverish little ambassador, that the invaders were scum, hired...
...Since Shirley Temple." As the week passed, the press duly noted that Jackie Kennedy presented an autographed etching of the White House for a Catholic benefit auction in New York. She showed up fashionably late for the opening night of the Washington Opera Society season, arm in arm with Adlai Stevenson and a daughter of Konrad Adenauer, and she announced that she had discovered, hidden away in White House storage, a gilt pier table ordered by James Monroe...
...staging the attack, raged that it was the prelude to direct, frontal invasion by "North American imperialists." Raúl Roa, Castro's U.N. delegate, popped up to demand that the General Assembly consider the anti-U.S. charges immediately, was eagerly backed by the Soviet Union. Adlai Stevenson, for the U.S., denied all, and cited the Cuban markings on the planes...
Ardent Stevensonian Jane Warner Dick stumped for her longtime friend and Illinois neighbor Adlai in his 1948 gubernatorial campaign; in 1952, taking time off from social-welfare work, she became vice chairman of the National Volunteers for Stevenson. In 1956 she took to the hustings again, proved herself as a front-line speaker and strategist capable of winning over almost everyone but her Republican husband. Office Equipment Executive Edison Dick. Last week the petite, 54-year-old grandmother of five was again working madly for Adlai, this time as the newly appointed U.S. representative on the Social Commission of UNESCO...
...Pacific School of Religion at Berkeley, is agin' atheism, agnosticism, romanticism, rationalism, humanism, positivism, existentialism and cubism. He is agin' progressive educators. Method actors, permissive parents, Vedantists, Taoists, Zen Buddhists and Bohemians. Getting personal, he is agin' Jean Jacques Rousseau, Arthur Schopenhauer. Walt Whitman, Alfred Kinsey. Adlai Stevenson, Aldous Huxley, Jack Paar, Caryl Chessman, Erich Fromm, Boris Pasternak, Charles Van Doren, Tennessee Williams, Françoise Sagan, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Archibald MacLeish, Albert Camus. Samuel Beckett, D. T. Suzuki and James F. Powers. He is also agin...