Word: adlai
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...leave rural Irwinton, and politics was a way to do it. When his political bid failed, Harrold and his wife Virginia moved to her home town of Tallahassee. Carswell, a Democrat, was persuaded by a local newsman to take Eisenhower's side in a radio debate with an Adlai Stevenson backer. Soon he became known as Ike's advocate in Florida, and when the Republicans took office, Carswell was named a U.S. Attorney. He became a Republican, and in 1958 Eisenhower appointed him a federal district judge. Last spring, when Nixon and Attorney General Mitchell were shopping...
...Wasn't it Adlai Stevenson who said: "Flattery is fine but don't inhale...
...Washington, D.C., a huge windshield wiper for Grant Park in Chicago, a melting Good Humor bar to replace the Pan Am Building in New York. Nor are all the monuments big. The most poignant, in fact, is the smallest-a fallen hat for "a London street" to commemorate Adlai Stevenson...
...James's, Philadelphia Publisher Walter Annenberg, who is inarticulate and inexperienced in diplomacy, replaced a brilliant and popular Foreign Service veteran, David K. E. Bruce. At the U.N., Charles Yost, an able but relatively obscure professional, moved into the chair once warmed by such noted men as Adlai Stevenson and Arthur Goldberg...
...education subcommittee represents some of the most liberal sentiment in Congress. Mrs. Green, 59, was supporter of Adlai Stevenson for President and later ran Robert Kennedy's unsuccessful Democratic primary campaign in Oregon. Most of the other members of the committee are of a similar bent. The aim of the hearings was largely to amass evidence that colleges would be best left alone to handle campus disorders. Only Rep. William Scherle (R-Iowa) gave a foretaste of the real mood of the House when he told Pusey that unless "college administrators have the guts to adopt a get-tough policy...