Word: adlai
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...hastily called United Nations Security Council meeting, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson described the U.S. action as a "limited and measured response fitted precisely to the attack that produced it, and the deployment of additional U.S. forces to Southeast Asia is designed to make unmistakably clear that the U.S. cannot be diverted by military attack from its obligations to help its friends establish and protect their independence." Stevenson readily accepted the Soviet Union's rather dispirited demand that the Hanoi government be invited to tell its story to the U.N. Council, on condition that South Viet Nam also would...
...debate. This reputation got him the chairmanship of the National Republican Committee, and he did a diligent job, traveling some 150,000 miles, delivering nearly 600 speeches, appearing on national television more than 100 times, and jabbing at the Democrats every inch of the way. He has called Adlai Stevenson "completely inept," castigated Averell Harriman as the man "who loused up Laos," described Pierre Salinger as "the thinking man's filter...
...dinner given by the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation (of which he is chairman), in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., United Nations Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, 64, defined the social life of a diplomat: "Protocol, alcohol and Geritol...
...exchange for three months' vacation. The island's telephones are cut off from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. And those in the know enjoy the highly civilized isolation (at about $9 a day, everything included, during July and August). Vulcano's visitors have included Alec Guinness, Adlai Stevenson-and Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, whose stay was unnoted by a single journalist or photographer...
...Adlai Stevenson agreed with that and invited Maine's Colby College students to get jailed, if necessary, since "a jail sentence is no longer a dishonor but a proud achievement." At Marquette, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, on the other hand, warned "the concerned generation" not to let zeal carry them as far as jail. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, while approving all these domestic good works, told Smith girls that foreign policy is "as close and important as your friends and family, as everything you cherish...