Word: adlai
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...muttered darkly that someone-a Democrat, no doubt-had punctured the huge "Ike" balloon they planned to float over Portland. John Roosevelt, barnstorming for the Republicans, had an interesting comment: "I come from a traveling family-and the standards are still set by my mother." In New Jersey, Democrat Adlai Stevenson said that Vice President Richard Nixon had campaigned with "smut, smear and slander." In California, Republican Nixon said Stevenson was "snide and snobbish...
Although Toynbee made only the one appearance, the crowds seeking to hear him rivaled those of last spring when Adlai E. Stevenson gave the annual Godkin Lectures. All three of Stevenson's lectures drew capicity audiences...
...beginnings. A geographic unit, hemmed by natural barriers, it once almost became a state (as big as all New England, New York, Delaware and Maryland) called Lincoln. Congress approved in 1886, but Grover Cleveland pocket-vetoed the bill on the advice of his politically potent First Assistant Postmaster General Adlai Stevenson, who feared that south Idaho, if left to itself, would become a Mormon commonwealth...
...CALL TO GREATNESS, by Adlai Stevenson (Harper; $2.25), will sound to many more like a call to weakness. Stevenson is seriously disturbed over the possibility that the U.S. will appear to be too arrogant in world affairs. He is troubled by "pronouncements of rigid policy by American leaders" and by "the growing emphasis on the military aspect of anti-Communist defense." Any unilateral action by the U.S., he fears, "will tend to confirm the Communist charge that our purpose is not disinterested cooperation but self-interested domination." As the U.S. stands before the world it must be humble...
...director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff; Charles Burton Marshall, a top State Department planner under Dean Acheson; F.S.C. Northrop, Sterling professor of philosophy and law at Yale, noted for such provocative books as The Taming of the Nations, The Meeting of East and West; and Adlai Stevenson, titular head of the Democratic Party. The four volumes are being heavily advertised, have been widely reviewed and have caused quite a bit of chatter. They are indeed newsworthy, not because they are good, but because-for all the work that has gone into them-they...