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Arthur Summerfield. Mustached Adlai Stevenson I, who was Grover Cleveland's Assistant P.M.G. before he became his Vice President, is to be hung there too. Day was pleased to learn that the first Adlai was so aggressive in uprooting Republican postmasters and replacing them with Democrats that he was known around Washington as "The Hatchet...
Most U.N. delegates listened in silence as the big nations lobbed angry rhetoric back and forth. But the U.S.'s Adlai Stevenson plainly had widespread support when he characterized Gromyko's speech as "in the worst and most destructive traditions of the cold war.'' As for Hammarskjold. said Stevenson, the U.S. would support him "with all our strength." Through it all, Hammarskjold himself sat impassively, looking like a man who had other problems to worry about. He had. One of them is the future of the U.N. operations boss in the Congo. Indian Diplomat Rajeshwar Dayal...
...each time she came through the revolving doors of the Carlyle Hotel. She supped with Art Dealer Harry Brooks, Fashion Editor Diana Vreeland and such socialite old friends as Mrs. Charles Wrightsman. Her big evening was spent catching the popularly-priced ($3.95 top) City Center ballet with U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson as her es cort. After the performance, Jackie went backstage to thank the company, heard one member exult: "She has made our season." Days were devoted to fashion fittings in her suite, with the dresses dis patched through the lobby under canvas by her couturier, Oleg Cassini. Also under...
Tarbrushed. Weeks ago. Adlai Stevenson concluded it was time for a major policy change. In the State Department and the White House, the U.S's new leaders were thinking along similar lines...
...resolution approached. To the sponsors of the Angola resolution (Liberia, Ceylon and the U.A.R.). Stevenson insisted that the U.S. would not support a strident, hysterical measure. As a result, the drafters took a sober second look at their own resolution and agreed to tone it down. During the debate, Adlai Stevenson cited the Declaration of Independence and chided NATO Partner Portugal for ignoring the obvious signals that could push Angola into the same hideous chaos Belgium had bestowed upon its Congo colony. When it was time to vote, Stevenson lifted his fateful finger on the Afro-Asian side...